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Water Supply
Landforms & Climate
Human Impacts
Glaciers and Ecoystems
Water Stuff
100
This a water that you can drink
What is Potable water
100

Lack of vegetation or fast water causes this 

What is Erosion

100

Wearing clothing is an __________ (direct/indirect) use of water. 

What is indirect? 

100

Land feature created when a glacier moves foward and melts back to reveal a pile of rocks at the end of the glacier

What is a moraine

100

Type of pollution that harms birds, shellfish, and otters    

What is an oil spill 

200
97% of the Earths water is here
What is the Ocean
200

Caused by Earth's plates moving apart from each other under the ocean

What are the ocean ridges?

200
Water is pushed from a low to high water concentration using energy to remove it from purities. 

What is reverse osmosis? 

200

Invertebrates such as insects, crustaceans whose numbers can show the health of the ecosystem.

What is a bioindicator? 

200

Water forms that cause erosion, weathering and deposition

What are waves, tides and glaciers? 

300
Characteristics that make it suitable or unsuitable for various uses
What is Water Quality
300
Rocky shores are caused by 

Strong powerful waves

300

Water is vapourized quickly then condensed into pure water.

What is distillation? 

300

Power plant discharge warm water into rivers or lakes

What is thermal pollution? 

300

How pure the water is

What is water quality?

400
Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation.
What is the water cycle
400

Caused by the gravitational pull of the moon

What are tides? 

400

An oil spill kills fish and other organisms. Rabbit populations decrease in winter.

What is a short term population change and a seasonal population change

400

Causes algae blooms

What are fertilizers from farmer’s fields leach into surrounding bodies of water

400

Five of the main environmental factors that lead to the development of adaptations of aquatic organisms are

Salinity, Oxygen levels, Pressure, Movement and light.

500

The majority of fresh water

What is frozen water?

500

A watershed is all of the water from an area of land that drains into one main river. True or false?

False. It is an area of LAND where all the water drains.

500

The correct order of human water use from most to least

agriculture, industry and domestic

500
Mikey is testing how the different types of fertilizers he uses on his lawn affects the health of the pond in his yard. He uses a different fertilizer each year for 3 years and counts how many fish are in his pond. What is the manipulated variable in his investigation? 

What is the fertilizer type? 

500

Amount of sediments carried in a river or stream

What is sediment load?