Frozen Water
What is the term for floating freshwater ice?
Iceberg
What body of freshwater is the largest?
Lake
Where are the majority of the living organisms found in the ocean?
Coral reefs
What is the term for water that you can drink?
Potable
What is the leading contributor to human's water consumption?
Agriculture
Where is the majority of the Earth's frozen water found?
Antartica (90%) and Greenland (10%)
If surviving in the wild, what would be the best natural source of water to drink from?
Fast moving river
What is the difference between an ocean and sea?
A sea touches land
What is the term for the amount of salt in the water?
salinity
What is something that we are unable to remove from water when treating it?
Meds or microplastics
What is the term for a large crack in ice?
What is the term for the area of land that drains into a common body of water
Watershed
What is the term for the geological feature that is also known as a "drop off"
Continental slope
What is turbidity?
the couldiness of water
What common appliance uses the most water per use?
Washing machine
What is an Erratic?
A large boulder deposited by a glacier
What is a tributary?
Where a stream or river flows into a larger river
Why do coastal cities typically experience more stable temperatures?
the specific heat capacity of water
What is the term for contamination that impacts a different area?
Non-point source
What is one of the leading causes of algal blooms?
fertilizers
How do glaciers form?
snow gets compacted, freezes and covered by more snow
What is an aquifer?
An underground layer of material that contains water
Which tide will be the smallest?
low neap tide
What is the term for organisms that can produce energy from thermal vents?
Chemosynthesis
Burning garbage would be what type of water contamination?
non-point source