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