Hydrosphere
Percentages (QUIZ)
Percentages (QUIZ)
"Other saline water" accounts for this percentage of Earth's TOTAL global water.
What's 0.9%?
NC is made up of this many river basins.
What is 17?
A large channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope--Made of many streams that come together.
What is a river?
The Ocean floor includes 5 different parts.
What is the continental shelf, continental slope, Mid-ocean ridge, Rift valleys, Trenches
This zone is thousands of meters below the ocean's surface and the water is extremely cold.
What is the deep ocean OR what is the abyssal zone?
Freshwater accounts for this percentage of Earth's TOTAL global water.
What is 2.5%?
There are only 4 River basins entirely contained within NC.
Cape fear, Neuse, White Oak, Tar-Pamilico
A group of interconnected watersheds.
What is a river basin?
Organisms like Swordfish, Tuna, Shrimp, Crab, Oysters and Scallops are all found in the ocean near NC for this reason.
Fishing is a major industry in NC.
There are four different TYPES (not examples.) of Estuaries...
What are Coastal plains/Drowned river mouth, Fjords, Bar-Built, Tectonic?
Oceans account for this percentage of Earth's total global water.
What is 96.5%?
What are the names of the five western river basins in NC.
Little Tennessee, Hiwasee, French Broad, Watauga, New
Streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main/larger river.
What are tributaries?
This zone is known as the "open ocean".
Inlets, bays, lagoons.
Ground ice and permafrost accounts for this percentage of Surface water and other freshwater.
Rocky Mount, NC is apart of this river basin.
What is Tar-Pamilico?
Part of the Earth's surface that is covered by ocean water.
What is the ocean basin?
This zone is the top 200 meters of water and photosynthesis DOES take place here.
What is the photic zone?
Barrier islands, Reefs, Sand spits or sand bars
Glaciers and ice caps account for this percentage of Freshwater.
What is 68.7%?
Jacksonville, NC lies in this river basin.
What is the White Oak river basin?
An area of land that drains water to the lowest point-- a river, stream, lake or ocean
What is a watershed?
This zone is below the top 200 meters of water. Photosynthesis does NOT take place here.
What is the aphotic zone?
________ levels change tides, wind direction and storms.
What is salinity?