The amount of matter suspended in the water determines this.
What is clarity?
Large ripples, set in motion by steady winds.
What are ocean waves?
The human body is made up of this percentage of water.
What is 65%?
When excess fertilizers build up in a water system and can cause algal blooms
What is eutrophication?
These tides occur twice per month, when the Moon is between the Earth and Sun.
What are spring tides?
In the summer, sometimes parts of the glacier will melt and carve out channels.
What is a millwell?
An ecosystem where are the water runoff drains into a single body of water
What is a Watershed?
A wave that reaches the shore and falls over itself.
What is a breaker?
Reinforced rock baskets that help reduce erosion.
What are rip raps?
The amount of water discharged by a watershed.
What is streamflow?
This is formed where the edge of an oceanic plate pushes under the edge of a continental plate.
What is a trench?
The percentage of the Earth's freshwater that is in the ground.
What is 30%?
Four pieces of evidence that will identify that a glacier was present at one time.
What are moraines, cirques, horns and aretes?
The level below the ground in which porous rock is saturated with water.
What is the water table?
Sediment from continents, brought to the ocean floor by massive landslides accumulates here.
What are abyssal plains?
A stream of warm water that starts in the Caribbean and travels to Great Britain.
What is the Gulf Stream?