Oceans
More ocean stuff
Cleanliness/Laws/Acts
Freshwater
Stats/Random
100
Where productivity is the greatest.
What are the surface layers of the ocean?
100
The oceans have lots of this in them.
What are food, fish, plants, salt, dead stuff, etc.?
100
A measure of the health of a water supply.
What is water quality?
100
Most of Earth's freshwater is stored here
What is ice?
100
H2O is the ___________ __________ of water.
What is the chemical formula?
200
The amount of Earth's surface covered by oceans.
What is 70%?
200
The oceans are one __________ body of water.
What is continuous?
200
The acidity of the water (presence of hydrogen ion)
What is pH?
200
One of the two river basins YOU probably live in.
What are the Cape Fear River Basin and the Neuse River Basin?
200
The reason that most of Earth's freshwater is not easily usable.
What is salty?
300
This percent of all the water on the earth is saltwater.
What is 97%?
300
It adds viscosity to detergent, shampoo, ice cream, cosmetics, paint, and pudding.
What is algae?
300
Name the the first step to the water filtration process
What is the first filtration?
300
The percentage of Earth's freshwater that is groundwater.
What is 20?
300
There are this many major river basins there are in N. C.
What is 17?
400
Through the open ocean food web, small fish eat this.
What is zooplankton?
400
Three things that are in the ocean besides water.
What are food, algae, drinking water, fuel, and/or minerals?
400
This ensures the safety of municipal drinking water supplies
What is EPA?
400
These are like fish nursery´s
What is estuary´s?
400
A barrel of oil dumping into a river is an example of this
What is point source pollution?
500
There are this many ocean zones.
What is 9?
500
A process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface to replace warmer water that's been blown aside by wind.
What is upwelling?
500
When the Clean Water Act was passed
What is 1972?
500
This percentage of liquid freshwater is accessible on earths surface
What is 1%?
500
Name one of the four largest consumer countries of water
What is U.S., India, China, or Japan?
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