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33 Cards in this Set
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Q.What percent of Earth’s water is fresh water? |
3 percent |
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Q.What is water called that falls to the Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail called? |
precipitation |
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Q.What is water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rocks called? |
groundwater |
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Q.What are the streams and small rivers that feed into a main river called? |
tributaries |
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Q.Why do wetlands provide good habitats for many living things? |
they have sheltered waters and a large supply of nutrients |
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Q.What is an aquifer? |
its an underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water |
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Q.What is a well in which groundwater rises because of pressure called? |
artesian well |
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Q.What are the three major steps of the water cycle? |
evaporation, condensation, precipitation |
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Q.Because plants use water to undergo photosynthesis and release water into the atmosphere, which part of the water cycle to plants contribute to? |
evaporation |
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Q.What is the horizontal distance between wave crests? |
wavelength |
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Q.What is the size of a wave is NOT affected by? |
salinity, temperature, density |
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Q. As a wave nears shore, what happens to the wave height and the wavelength?
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decreases |
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Q.What does the salinity of water measure? |
dissolved salts |
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Q.In which zone is ocean temperature most affected by the weather? |
surface zone |
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Q.What happens as you descend through the water column? |
temperature decreases, pressure increases, light decreases, density increases |
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Q.What are tides caused by? |
the interaction of the Earth, Moon, and Sun |
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Q.What is the large stream of moving water that flows through the oceans called? |
current |
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Q.In the Northern Hemisphere, why do the currents curve to the right? |
Coriolis effect |
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Q.What is the movement of cold, deep ocean water to replace warm water at the surface is called? |
upwelling |
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Q.What is the movement of cold, deep ocean water to replace warm water at the surface is called? |
marshes, bogs, swamps |
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Q What is a place where heated groundwater bubbles to the surface is called ? |
hot spring |
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Q What two factors make ocean floor research difficult? |
high pressure and low temperature |
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Q.What is the movement of energy through a body of water? |
wave |
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Q.What type of currents do winds cause? |
surface current |
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Q.What is the top of the saturated zone called? |
water table |
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Q.What measurement is affected by the evaporation of seawater? |
salinity |
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Q.What is the daily rise and fall of water on the coastlines called?
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tides |
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Q.What force causes the tides? |
gravity |
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Q.Identify and name the place where water changes from a liquid to a gas. |
evaporation |
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Q.How does precipitation become groundwater? |
Precipitation hits Earth’s surface and becomes runoff that flows across the surface. Some of it soaks into the ground and becomes groundwater. |
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Q.Identify and name the place where water returns to Earth’s surface from the atmosphere. |
Precipitation |
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Q.Using the diagram, describe two different paths a raindrop falling in the mountains might take to reach the ocean. |
A raindrop will fall in the mountains, runoff into a stream, flow into a river, and then into the ocean.A raindrop will fall on a lake, flow from the lake into a river, and then into the ocean. |
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Q.Identify and name the step in which droplets of water clump together around tiny dust particles in the air. |
Condensation |
