Frozen Water
Fresh Water
Oceans
Living in Water
Quality and Managment
100
A process when all the water on the earth moves continuously between the oceans, land, and air.
What is the water cycle?
100
A drainage basin where land drains into a body of water.
What is a watershed?
100
The measured amount of salt dissolved in a liquid
What is salinity?
100
The variety of life living in a habitat.
What is diversity?
100
Water that contains a lot of dissolved calcium and magnesium.
What is hard water?
200
A moving mass of ice and snow.
What is a glacier ?
200
When water doesn't soak into the ground or evaporate, instead it slows on the Earth's surface
What is run-off?
200
Long undersea mountain chains.
What is ocean ridges?
200
Tiny plants that most life on Earth depends on.
What is phytoplankton?
200
Water that is safe to drink.
What is potable water?
300
A glacier flows over a steep cliff and breaks up.
What is an icefall?
300
The upstream areas of a watershed.
What is headwaters?
300
Largest tidal movements, opposite of neap tides.
What is a spring tide?
300
The clarity of water.
What is turbidity?
300
Pollutants enter the water system and rains on the Earth.
What is acid rain?
400
When ice builds up faster than it melts.
What is an advancing glacier?
400
The movement of sediments from one place to another.
What is erosion?
400
A tumble of water where the wave collapses on shore.
What is a breaker?
400
Water that is 7 on the ph scale.
What is pure water?
400
The type of organisms living in an area.
What is bioindicator species?
500
When bedrock is damaged by dragged rock fragments, these marks are left behind.
What is a striation?
500
Water flowing through a poris rock.
What is an aquifer?
500
A smooth wave.
What is a swell?
500
When the concentration of toxins is magnified throughout the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
500
Maintaining a reliable water supply for everyday needs.
What is water management?
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