What percentage of the earths water is saltwater?
97%
What is the name for the place where fresh and saltwater mix
Estuary
A shower of organic material falling from upper waters to the deep ocean
Marine snow
What is this?
Septic tank
What is groundwater?
Water held underground in soil or in the pores of rocks
What Percentage of the earths water is freshwater?
3%
This community is located on the ocean floor and heated by the Earth
hydrothermal vent
Most water pollution is the result of what?
Humans
The measure of suspended particles in water that affect it's clarity?
turbidity
Oceans make up what percent of the hydrosphere?
90%
What percent of the earth is water
71%
This area includes the shoreline at both low and high tides
Intertidal Zone
The measure of the acidity of water?
pH
This is added to water to kill disease causing microorganisms.
Chlorine
What is transpiration?
Water given off by plant photosynthesis
Which ocean is the largest and deepest?
Polar Ice Caps/Glaciers
The flat region of the ocean floor covered by a layer of sediment
Abyssal Plain
Which is it- point or non- point source pollution? pollution that comes from one source, such as a chemical leak from a factory
point-source pollution
an organism or biological response that reveals the presence of pollutants
Bio indicators
Most of the earths freshwater is not usable, why?
Because its frozen in glaciers and ice caps
Where can most of Earth's fresh water be found?
Polar Ice Caps/Glaciers
The movement of cold water from the deep ocean that carries nutrients to the surface?
upwelling
Which is it- point or non- point source pollution? trash in a river
non-point source pollution
What levels of pH is acidic
anything less than 7
The attractive force between water molecules
Cohesion