True or False
The second largest ice sheet on Earth's surface is the Greenland Ice Sheet.
True
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The upper limit of the saturated zone.
What is the water table?
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The three main types of wetlands.
What are Bogs, Marshes, and Swamps.
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Long columns of ice taken from glaciers.
What are ice cores?
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Water that does not soak into the soil.
What is runoff?
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All lakes contain freshwater.
False, most lakes contain fresh water, not all lakes.
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People often bring groundwater by drilling __.
What are wells?
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Increases with the number of pores in the rock.
What is porosity?
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Earth's largest ice sheet.
What is the Antarctic Ice Sheet?
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Small streams that form near divides.
What are headwaters?
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Sea ice does not raise the sea level.
True
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Means tidal marsh.
What is an estuary.
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The measure of a water's ability to flow through rock and sediment.
What is permeability?
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The coldest periods.
What are ice ages?
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A much more plentiful water source than lakes or streams.
What is groundwater?
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Scientists have recorded a trend in a incresing trend in the amount of snow cover.
False, Scientists have recorded a decreasing trend
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If __ are too high, oxygen levels in the water can be so low that fish and other animals cannot survive.
What are decay rates?
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The two layers are separated by a region of rapid temperature change.
What is a thermocline?
What percent of sunlight is reflected?
What is 10 percent?
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Rock that water cannot flow through.
What is impermeable rock?
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Human activities are associated with the recent melting of Glacial ice and ice sheets.
True.
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Means different or not the same.
What is distinct?
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Groundwater fills ___ in soil and rocks in the saturated zone.
What are pores?
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Mountain system of Europe.
What are Alps?
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Near Earth's surface, the pores contain a mixture of oxygen and water.
What is the unsaturated zone?
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