Wetlands
What is a wetland?
What is somewhere on Earth that is covered with a shallow layer of water for some or all of the year?
What is the percentage of fresh and saltwater on Earth?
What drives the water cycle?
What is the sun
What is an aquifer?
What is any underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water
What is the water table?
What is the top of the saturated zone?
What are the three types of Wetlands?
What are bogs, marshes, and swamps
What is a tributary?
What is the streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river?
What is typically the first step of the water cycle and what does it do?
What is evaporation and it changes water from a liquid to a gas
What are permeable materials?
What is materials that allow water to pass through
What is capillary action?
What is water and its unique ability to join together with other water molecules?
What type of wetlands do we see where we live?
What are marshes?
What is a watershed?
What is all of the land area that supplies water to a river system?
What is condensation and what must there be for it to happen?
What is when water changes from a gas to a solid and there has to be a DUST particle
What are impermeable materials?
What are materials that do not allow water to pass through.
What is specific heat?
What is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of a given mass of a substance by 1 degree celsius?
What is the largest wetland in the world and why is it important?
What are the Florida Everglades and because they help control floods in Florida during hurricanes and everything else.
What is Eutrophication?
What is when dead plants and animals die and algae takes over the pond eventually leading to its death.
What is the last step of the water cycle and what state of water does it change to?
What is precipitation and it changes from a solid to a liquid
What is the saturated zone and where is it typically located?
What is the area that is full of water and it is typically deep underground.
What is surface tension and give an example of something that can walk/run on water?
What is the tightness across the surface due to the molecules pulling apart on one another. A lizard and water strider?
What are three things that Wetlands do for humans/environment?
What are the 6 tributaries that feed into the Mississippi River Watershed called?
What is Platte, Red, Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, Mississippi
What are three other parts to the water cycle that are very important?
What is collection, runoff, transpiration, etc.
What is the unsaturated zone and where can it be located at?
What is the area that is not full of water and typically really deep underground (clay and bedrock) and at the top of the soil
What is Earth called and why is it called that?
What is the blue planet and its called that because of all the water on the surface