Rivers
3 surface waters.
What are rivers, streams, and lakes?
smaller areas of ice.
What are glaciers and ice sheets?
Two ways to conserve water.
What are running showers and faucets longer than necessary?
The definition of groundwater.
What is rain or melted snow that soaks into the ground?
The area in which water drains into a river.
What is a watershed?
When glaciers and ice sheets form.
What is when each year's snowfall is greater than the amount that melts?
How much toilets flush every day(per person).
How much is 71 liters?
When too much water is pumped out of an aquifer.
What happens when the water table in the area drops?
When chemicals are placed in the watershed.
What happens when chemicals are placed in water and carried to rivers?
When ocean water freezes.
What happens when the resulting water isn't salty?
How much water is used for laundry(per person).
How much is 57 liters?
An example of what we use fresh water for.
What is drinking?
When soil runs into rivers.
When does soil run into rivers and cause changes to ecosystems downstream?
When Valley glaciers and ice sheets flow.
What happens when they crush and move rock, changing the shape of the land?
How much shower and bath water is used (per person).
How much is 49 liters?
The water that fills spaces between rock and soil.
What is groundwater?
The two countries where most ice is found.
What are Greenland and Antarctica?
What Valley glaciers are.
What are glaciers that are found in valleys in high mountains?
How much water is wasted in all (per person).
How much is 215 liters?
What from the surface can seep into groundwater like rainwater does.
What is pollution?