Water is Unique
Water in General
Bodies of Water
The Water Cycle
Local Water sources
100
It is essential to all life (as we know it) on Earth)
What is Water?
100
Where the majority of fresh water is found on Earth
What are the Polar ice caps and glaciers?
100
The drainage area of a river
What is a river basin?
100
The water you are drinking has been here this long
What is the beginning of time?
100
Public-supply water system
What is water that is delivered to a home or business?
200
Can dissolve other substances
What is solute?
200
The percentage of fresh water on Earth
What is 3%?
200
Where ground water is stored
What is an aquifer?
200
Ensures the supply of drinking water (fresh water) is replenished
What is the Water Cycle?
200
Water that people get themselves
What is self-supplied water?
300
Has a Positive and Negative end, the characteristic of water which allows it to "stick"to itself and to other particles which have a charge
What is Polar?
300
The five individual oceans that make up one large connected body of water
What Are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern?
300
Water that infiltrates or soaks into the Earth. It does not runoff.
What is groundwater?
300
Rain, sleet, snow or hail
What is precipitation?
300
A well
What is a structure dug into an aquifer from which water is pumped?
400
The amount of energy required to raise one gram of water one degree Celsius
What is Specific Heat Capacity?
400
The salt content
What is Salinity?
400
A blend of salt and fresh water
What is brackish water?
400
The process that sends water into the atmosphere by using the power of the sun
What is evaporation?
400
The average rainfall in North Carolina
What is 48 inches? or What is 4 feet?
500
A physical property of water which is lowered when salt is added to the water
What is Freezing Point?
500
All water on Earth makes up this
What is the Hydrosphere?
500
Where a river empties into an ocean, the fresh and saltwater mix. An area like a nursery for many animals.
What is an estuary?
500
Water that does not soak into the ground
What is runoff?
500
Watershed
What is a small area of land that drains into a stream or wetland?
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