freshwater sink or swim
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Freshwater Sink Or Swim. Question. What percent of the Earth’s water is salt water?. Answer 97%. Question. What powers the Water cycle?. Answer The Sun. Question. Letting your towel dry is an example of what?. Answer Evaporation. Question. What stage in the water cycle gains energy. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Freshwater SinkOr
Swim
Question
What percent of the Earth’s water is salt water?
Answer
97%
Question
What powers the Water cycle?
Answer
The Sun
QuestionLetting your towel dry is an example of what?
Answer
Evaporation
Question
What stage in the water cycle gains energy
Answer
evaporation
QuestionWater that is absorbed by the ground becomes groundwater if the soil horizons are _______________.
Answer
Permeable
Question
Rain, sleet, and hail are all examples of what?
Answer
Precipitation
Question
Transpiration is water vapor given off by?
Answer
plants
QuestionWhich is not a type of mechanical weathering: Abrasion, animals, oxidation, ice wedging
Answeroxidation
QuestionThe total amount of water on Earth is ___________
AnswerStaying the same
QuestionIn order to move from the ocean to the atmosphere, a water molecule must ______________.
AnswerGain energy
QuestionIf you see water droplets on your mirror after you have taken a hot shower, you are seeing _____.
AnswerCondensation
QuestionWhat percent of all fresh water
is actually on the surface?
Answer1%
QuestionThe arrow is
pointing to the top of the
groundwater, or saturated zone.
What is this called?
Answer
Water table
QuestionTiny openings in and between particles of a rock or soil that can contain water is called: _______
AnswerPorosity
Question
Pollution from a pipe from paper factory is an example of
what type of pollution?
Answer
Point-source
QuestionMost fresh water is found in what form?
Answer
ice
Question
A rock that can hold water is called an ______
Answer
Aquifer
Question
What stage in the water cycle produces clouds?
Answercondensation
QuestionWhat is this picture displaying?
Answer
Transpiration
QuestionA rock containing IRON becomes soft, crumbly, and REDDISH-BROWN in color. It probably has been chemically weathered by ______.
Answeroxygen
Question
The place where a river meets the ocean and deposits it’s
load, is called what?
Answer
A delta
QuestionChanging liquid water to gas, is what stage in the water cycle?
Answerevaporation
Question
What type of rock are most fossils found in?
AnswerSedimentary
QuestionSuwanee Creek flows into the Chatahoochee river. Suwanee creek is an example of what?
AnswerA tributary
QuestionLand that is covered part of the year by shallow water and contains important habitats for many species is called what?
AnswerSwamp/wet lands
Question
AnswerEvamporation
What is this an example of?
Question
The ability for water to flow through a rock is called it’s
_________
Answer
permeability
Question
What contains more water…groundwater or surface water?
Answer
groundwater
QuestionWhat is the FIRST thing that has to happen in the development of soil?
Answer
Rocks must get weathered
Question
Fertilizer from a farm is an example of what kind of
pollution?
Answer
Non-point source
QuestionThe area above
the aquifer where there is
no water is called the ____
zone.
Answer
unsaturated
QuestionClay is ____ because it has no
connected pores to allow water to pass through.
Answer
impermeable
Question
An alluvial fan is an example of what process?
AnswerDeposition
Question
What kind of water do glaciers contain?
AnswerFresh water
Question
How much of the Earth is covered by water?
Answer70%
Question
Rain the falls onto the road during a thunderstorm is an
example of what?
AnswerRunoff