Unit 5 Vocab

1. "colonies made of thousands of tiny individual corals."
7. "part of streamflow that has infiltrated the ground."
8. "water likes to stick to other things."
11. "driven by differences in the water's density."
14. Cycle "the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere."
15. "the process by which water vapor in the air is changed to liquid water."
16. "the ability of any material such as rocks to pass fluids or gases through its pores."
17. "driven by global wind systems that are fueled by energy from the sun."
19. "the rate something changes over a distance or time."
20. "a climate pattern that describes the cooling of the surface."
21. "a seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region."
23. "precipitation that runs off the landscape."
24. "a measure of the void spaces in a material."
25. "the process of dissolved mineral salts in water are removed."

2. "a local wind system characterized by a flow from land to water late at night."
3. "water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface."
4. "the measure of dissolved salts in water."
5. "water likes to stick to itself."
6. "two opposing flows,one at the surface and one aloft."
9. Table "underground area where the Earth's surface is saturated with water."
10. "an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water."
12. "the sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration."
13. "a constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity."
18. "a warming of the ocean surface."
22. "water released from clouds in the form of rain. freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail."