A World of Water
Frozen Water
Fresh Water
Oceans
Bonus
100
This type of water makes up 97% of Earth's water.
What is salt water?
100
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

The human body is made up of this percentage of water. 

What is 65%?

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

When excess fertilizers build up in a water system and can cause algal blooms

What is eutrophication?

200

These tides occur twice per month, when the Moon is between the Earth and Sun.

What are spring tides?

200

In the summer, sometimes parts of the glacier will melt and carve out channels.  

What is a millwell?

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

An ecosystem where are the water runoff drains into a single body of water

What is a Watershed?

300

A wave that reaches the shore and falls over itself.

What is a breaker?

300

Reinforced rock baskets that help reduce erosion.

What are rip raps?

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 oceanic plate pushes under the edge of a continental plate.

What is a trench?

400

The percentage of the Earth's freshwater that is in the ground. 

What is 30%?

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

A stream of warm water that starts in the Caribbean and travels to Great Britain.

What is the Gulf Stream?

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