This type of glacier forms on relatively level land and flows outward from its centre.
What is an ice cap?
100
The amount of matter suspended in the water determines this.
What is clarity?
100
Large ripples, set in motion by steady winds.
What are ocean waves?
100
If the water cycle did not exist, Earth would completely dry out in about this number of years.
What is 3000 years?
200
These two changes of state are responsible for returning water to the Earth in the water cycle.
What are precipitation and condensation?
200
The steps to forming glacial ice.
What is new snow falls, old snow turns into granular snow under pressure, increasing pressure is applied to the granular snow by the weight of the new snow, air is forced out, glacial ice forms?
200
The five common types of wetlands in Alberta.
What are bogs, fens, marshes, swamps and shallow-open water?
200
These tides occur twice per month, when the Moon is between the Earth and Sun.
What are spring tides?
200
Each year about this amount of water evaporates to form water vapour.
What is about 520 000 square kilometers of water?
300
Most of the 3% of freshwater on Earth is contained here.
What is in ice or a frozen state?
300
A sheet of ice, rarely more than 5m thick, that forms from frozen sea water.
What is pack ice?
300
Edmonton is part of this drainage basin.
What is the Saskatchewan-Nelson basin?
300
Three factors that influence the direction of the currents.
What is uneven heating of the atmosphere, the rotation of the Earth, and the presence of the continents.
300
This percent of Earth's precipitation falls into the oceans.
What is 78%?
400
The characteristics of a water resource that make it suitable for various uses.
What is water quality?
400
This occurs when a glacier melts faster than it flows.
What is retreating?
400
The amount of water discharged by a watershed/
What is streamflow?
400
This is formed where the edge of an ocean plate pushes against the edge of a continental plate.
What is a trench?
400
The Fraser River carries an average of this amount of sediment into the Pacific Ocean each year.
What is 20 million tonnes?
500
These four countries hold nearly half of Earth's renewable fresh water.
What are Brazil, Canada, China and the USA?
500
Four pieces of evidence that will identify that a glacier was present at one time.
What are moraines, cirques, horns and aretes?
500
The level below the ground in which porous rock is saturated with water.
What is the water table?
500
Sediment from continents, brought to the ocean floor by massive landslides accumulates here.
What are abyssal plains?
500
The Gulf Stream current moves this amount of water per second.