How much?
Water with no salt is called this...
Freshwater
Where wetlands form
low, wet areas
What is water underground called
Groundwater
One river that flows into another
tributary
what are runoff erosions?
Erosion due to flowing water
The percentage of water that is saltwater
97%
Three Examples of wetlands
Marshes, swamps and bogs
When dumps or chemical spills spread to water underground, it becomes...
Contaminated
The land that drains into a river
watershed
Which body of water can light reach to the bottom?
Ponds
The percentage of freshwater that is frozen
69%
What wetlands provide for plants and animals.
shelter & nutrients
Ground that is holding all the water it can.
saturated
A ridge in the land forms this- the line between two watersheds
divide
what are wetlands?
areas of land that are saturated with water most of the time.
The percentage of freshwater that is underground
30%
Why does wetlands have a lot of nutrients.
Lots of living things in the area and there is a slow flow of water.
The line at the top of a saturated zone
water table
This is the process where nutrients build up on a lake or pond
eutrophication
Wells are holes dug into the ground to reach
The Aquifer
These lakes contain 20% of all the worlds lake water
the Great Lakes
Two ways wetlands help people
flood control and natural filters of water.
An underground area that holds water and lets it flow
aquifer
True or false:
Surface water is only any stationary body of water above ground
False
Surface water is ANY body of water above ground including lakes, streams, and rivers.
THIS IS A BOUNS QUESTION this is can used for a tie-breaker. If there is no tie this is worth 600 points
Question:
IS WATER WET
According to Google
If you're referring to wetness as the interaction between a liquid and a solid surface, as most do, then water is not wet.
So it is not Wet