Surface Water
All water on the Earth's surface.
What is "surface water"?
Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
What is "groundwater"?
Catching too many fish at once, causing the breeding population to become too depleted
What is "overfishing"?
A structure (built like steps) to allow fish to bypass a dam.
What is "a fish ladder"?
A surface that does not allow water to pass through easily, like the layer that forms the bottom edge of an aquifer.
What is "an impermeable surface"?
An area of land where all water drains into a common waterway.
What is "a watershed"?
One reason/way that an aquifer might become polluted.
What is "pollutants on the surface leak downward"?
The process of removing salt from water to make it suitable for human consumption.
What is "desalination"?
What is "It allows sediments and nutrients to resume their natural flow"?
Materials that are harmful to human health, the health of other organisms, or the environment.
What is "pollutants"?
Water (such as precipitation) that does not get absorbed by the ground, and flows into lakes and rivers.
What is "runoff"?
One way that water is added to an aquifer.
What is "when water on the surface moves ground that is permeable"?
Provide three examples of recreational activities related to the ocean.
What is "swimming, fishing, and boating"?
Three impacts that a dam has on the water downstream.
What is "lessens water flow, increases the temperature, and decreases the flow of nutrients"?
A natural or artificial substance containing elements to improve plant growth; transported to waterways via runoff; cause of dead zones and algae blooms.
What is "fertilizers"?
A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake. (Does not directly flow into the ocean)
What is "a tributary"?
Three ways humans can potentially harm groundwater.
What is "drilling too many wells, pumping too much groundwater, and building roads and parking lots"?
Two ways that plastics in the ocean threaten marine animals.
What is "animals ingest the plastics or it can entangle them"?
Four examples of pollutants that impact surface water. (You must be more specific than litter!)
The topmost layer of an aquifer; an underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks.
What is "a water table"?
A certain watershed covers an area that includes mountains with glaciers. If the glaciers were to completely melt, what would happen the amount of surface water and groundwater over time?
What is "the amount of surface water and groundwater would decrease over time"?
A geological formation that can store and provide water, comprised of one or more layers of permeable rocks where groundwater accumulates.
What is "an aquifer"?
Three ways that humans harm the ocean
What is "burning fossil fuels, overfishing, oil spills"?
Three potential impacts of overfishing. (One should be economic)
What is "loss of food, disrupts ecosystems, and loss of jobs"?
Energy drawn from the movement of water.
What is "hydroelectric energy"?