Water on earth
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100

A place where animals can survive with everything they need.

What is a habitat?

100

A river and all the streams that flow into it make up a

What is a river system?

100

The top of a saturated zone.

What is a water table?

100

Total amount of salt in a sample of water.

What is salinity?

100

Movement of sand along a beach.

What is longshore drift?

200

Contains most of earths freshwater today.

What is Ice?

200

Covers nearly 1/3 of the U.S and provides water to rivers.

What is the Mississippi Watershed?

200

Permeable rock that holds water and allows it to flow.

What is an aquifer?

200

Increases as you go deeper.

What is pressure?

200

Largest and most powerful surface current in the world.

What is the Gulf Stream?

300

This is where most precipitation falls into.

What is the ocean?

300

Body of water in which many plants can grow.

What is a pond?

300

Well that uses pressure in an aquifer.

What is an artesian well?

300

A long deep valley on the ocean floor.

What is a trench?

300

Pattern of temperature and weather over a area over a long period of time.

What is climate?

400

Accounts for 0.04% of all water on earth.

What is water vapor?

400

Process in which nutrients build up in a lake.

What is eutrophication?

400

Another method of obtaining water from the ground.

What are pumps?

400

Used to map the ocean floor.

What is sonar?

400

Effects of earths rotation on winds and ocean currents.

What is the Coriolis Effect?
500

Droplets of water clump around particles of air to form

What are clouds?

500

Separates watersheds.

What is a divide?

500

Meaning that water cannot pass through

What is impermeable?

500

Broad area covered in thick layers of mud and silt.

What is an Abyssal plain?

500

Move and mix water around the world.

What are deep currents?

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