Oceans
Rivers
Density
Watersheds
Wildcard
100
The currents driven by wind
What are surface currents?
100
The two things that rivers use to shape our landscapes.
What is erosion and deposition?
100
The amount of mass per unit volume of a substance
What is density?
100
An area of land where all water that falls on it travels to the same end location.
What is a watershed?
100
The name for the system that accounts for all water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
The currents driven by density
What are deep ocean currents?
200
The feature formed on the outside of a fast-flowing river bend
What is a cut bank?
200
These two things make water denser.
What is cooling it down and adding salt?
200
The landforms that often form boundaries of watersheds.
What are mountains and ridges?
200
The thing Ocean water does when it encounters fresh water near shore.
What is sinks underneath
300
The rotating currents that often trap garbage and create garbage patches.
What are ocean gyres?
300
The feature formed by deposition on the inside of a river bend.
What is a point bar?
300
The way hot and cold water would sort if they were in these jars.
What is hot on top and cold on bottom?
300
The safest of these spots to build a cabin
What is spot 2?
300
A triangular shaped area of deposition where a waterway enters the ocean
What is a river delta?
400
The process that brings nutrients from the deep to the surface.
What is upwelling?
400
A glacier forms a U-shaped valley. A river forms this valley shape.
What is "V-shaped"?
400
Rainwater falling on the ocean will do this.
What is float?
400
Where most watersheds lead to
What is an ocean?
400
The name for fish that are born in a river, live in the ocean, and come back to a river to spawn (not looking for a species)
What is anadromous?
500
The name of the 5 oceans.
What are the Arctic, Antarctic, Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific (any order is okay)
500
The type of waterway the Knik River is as it travels through the Matanuska Valley.
What is a braided river?
500
The saltiest body of water on Earth
What is the Dead Sea?
500
The name of 3 watersheds in and around Anchorage.
What are (any three of these)
500
The term for water that is not as fresh as a river and not as salty as the ocean
What is brackish?