HYDROSPHERE
What is the hydrosphere?
It's all the water we can find on our planet Earth
Is the water of the rivers fresh or salty?
It's fresh
True or False?
True.
A watershed is an area of land where all the main rivers drain into the same sea or ocean. True or False?
TRUE
Is the hydrosphere a layer of the Earth?
Yes, it is.
Say 2 salty bodies of water.
Seas and oceans
What is the name of the place where the river begins?
Source
True or false?
False, there are only three. The Mediterranean watershed, the Cantabrian watershed and the Atlantic watershed.
Where can we find water?
The frozen and liquid water on the surface of the Earth is called surface water and there is also fresh water underground that is called groundwater.
Say 4 fresh bodies of water.
River, lake, pond, stream, tributary
What is the name of the place where the river ends?
Mouth
Do you know the name of 5 rivers of the Mediterranean watershed?
Segura, Turia, Júcar, Ebro and Llobregat.
What is an acquifer?
It's a deposit of groundwater.
What is the water cycle?
It's the movement of water on planet Earth.
Rivers that flow into other rivers are called ........
Tributaries
Do you know the name of 5 rivers in the Cantabrian watershed?
Eo, Nalón, Nervión, Bidasoa, Navia
Is the water of the seas and oceans fresh or salty?
It is salty.
What is first? Put in order:
collection, condensation, evaporation and precipitation
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.
What is the course of a river? How many parts can we distinguish?
The course is the route the river takes.
Courses have three parts : upper course, middle course and lower course.
(Explain everyone of them, please)
Do you know the name of 5 rivers in the Atlantic watershed ?
Miño, Tajo, Duero, Guadiana andnGuadalquivir