SIO 50 Final: SIO 50 Final Study Guide: Water & Hydrological Cycle

• School: UCSD
• Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Course: SIO 50
• Professor: Geoffrey Cook

Document Summary

Water is the universal solvent and it can dissolve more substances than any other liquid on earth. Pure water is ph 7 which is neutral. When it expands, it is less dense when it freezes. It is the only substance on earth found naturally in all 3 phases (gas, solid, liquid). wouldn"t be able to exist: this is what makes life possible because if you freeze from bottom up, life. It has surface tension and a sticky ass nature of molecules caused by hydrogen bonds. Water has a dipolar molecule which looks like a mickey mouse head and can act like a magnet. The hydrological cycle is the circulation of earth"s water supply. Some processes involved in this cycle is. : precipitation- stuff like raining, evaporation- water being heated and transported back to the air, infiltration, runoff, transpiration-as water leaves plants as gas, storage in lakes/underground- 97% oceans, 3% on land (2. 15% glaciers, 0. 62% groundwater)