Oceans & Seas
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These are usually found on mountains near the North and South Poles
Glaciers
fresh water
True or false: Rivers flow uphill into seas, lakes, or other rivers.
If false, correct the sentence.
False: Rivers flow downhill into seas, lakes, or other rivers
The movement of water between the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere
Water cycle
True or false: 95% of all water on Earth is in the oceans and seas
If it is false, make the sentence correct.
True
True or false: lakes can only contain fresh water.
If false, correct the sentence.
What is a confluence?
The point where two rivers meet
This is a group of river basins that empty into the same sea.
Drainage basin
Clouds are formed in which process of the water cycle?
Condensation
What kind of water is in seas and oceans?
Salt water
Underground
Where does the upper course of a river start and end?
Define a riverbed
The land over which a river flows.
How does evaporation happen?
When water in oceans, lakes and rivers is heated by the sun
What is the difference between seas and oceans?
Seas are smaller than oceans, and they are partly surrounded by land
Precipitation filters into the ground through _______ ______ and collects in ________
porous rock ; aquifers
What is a meander?
What happens at the end of the lower course?
The river empties into a lake or the sea, in the mouth of the river
What happens when the precipitation falls to the ground?
Collection; water collects in rivers, lakes, and aquifers
What oceans and seas surround Spain?
Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Cantabrian Sea
Name two ways groundwater is brought to the surface
Springs (natural)
Wells (digging)
Describe the middle course of the river
The river gets bigger and wider. It begins to slow down. The land is flatter.
Name all the parts of a river
(not the stages)
Source, waterfall, meander, river bed, mouth, river basin, riverbed
Tributary, confluence
Name the four processes of the water cycle in order.