Oceans
The approximate percent of salt water on Earth.
What is 97%?
This is water that contains little to no dissolved salts.
What is fresh water?
Most of Earth's fresh water is contained in these.
What are glaciers or ice sheets?
The process of turning a liquid into a gas.
What is evaporation?
Does the height of water affect how fast it flows?
Yes, water will flow faster down a higher, steeper slope than a lower, flatter one.
This is the smallest ocean.
What is Arctic?
The approximate percent of fresh water on Earth.
What is 3%?
Is most of Earth's fresh water solid, liquid or gas?
Frozen solid
The process of turning a gas into a liquid.
What is condensation?
Why does water form on the outside of a cold cup?
Because of the difference in temperature between the cold liquid in the cup and the warm air.
This is the largest ocean.
What is Pacific?
We call large bodies of salt water oceans. What do we call large bodies of fresh water?
Lakes or rivers
The name we call a slow moving ice sheet.
What is a glacier?
This is name given to the process of evaporation, condensation, precipitation and runoff.
What is the Water Cycle?
When water forms on the outside of a cold cup, or dew forms on the grass early on a summer morning--Where does that water come from?
What is the atmosphere?
This is what we call a large body of salt water.
What is an ocean?
Is clear, clean looking water always safe to drink?
No. There could be microscopic bateria that you cannot see that can still make you sick.
What would happen if all frozen water on Earth melted?
The sea levels would rise and there would be flooding along the coasts and inland.
When water evaporates from the ocean, the _____ remains.
What is salt?
Earth has one ocean. Can you name at least 4 of the distinct named regions?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern (Antarctic), and Arctic oceans
The approximate percent of salt in ocean water.
A. 97% B. 30% C. 3.5%
What is 3.5%
The name we call the processing plants that remove salt from ocean water.
A. fresh water plant
B. desalination plant
C. water treatment facility
B. Desalination Plant
Why is most frozen water unaavailable for people to use, or not available to a lot of people?
Large populations do not live in the permanently frozen areas on Earth.
Earth's entire surface is covered by this amount of water (not salt versus fresh)?
A. 70% B. 97% C. 50%
A. 70%
Name two materials that could make a great filter.
Answers vary. Possibilities include: charcoal, sand, coffee filter, rocks/pebbles, cloth/gauze...