A well in which water flows to the surface naturally because it is under pressure.
What is an artesian well?
100
The formula for Density
What is Mass/Volume?
100
This much of the world's fresh water is frozen.
What is 2/3?
100
A substance that liquids cannot flow through, and the reason a drinking glass can hold water!
What is an impermeable substance?
200
A substance that liquids can flow through.
What is a permeable substance?
200
A place where the water surfaces that has continual flow of hot water.
What is a hot spring?
200
The Density of an object with mass 10g and Volume 20cm3?
What is 0.5 g/cm3
200
A mass of frozen water floating in the world's oceans.
What is an iceberg?
200
How ground water collects.
What is gravity causes rain water to sink in the soil, and eventually the water hits impermeable rock where it collects or is forced to flow in a different direction.
300
The top of the region that is saturated, or completely filled with water.
What is the Water Table?
300
A kind of hot spring where the rising hot water is forced to travel through a narrow passage.
What is a geyser?
300
The density of a cube with one edge 2 cm and mass of 24g.
What is 3 g/cm3?
300
The two types of glaciers
What is Continental and Valley glaciers
300
The three things that are needed to make an aquifer.
What are a layer of permeable material to hold the water, a neighboring area of impermeable rock to keep the water from draining away, and a source of water to replenish or refill the aquifer.
400
An underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that contains water.
What is an aquifer?
400
It pulls water downhill
What is gravity?
400
Water's Density
What is 1.0 g/cm3?
400
An increase in nutrients (algae and plants) in a lake or pond, either naturally or as a result of pollution.
What is Eutrophication?
400
Region of the world where aquifers are found.
What is all over the world?
500
A flow of water from the ground at a place where the surface of the land dips below the water table.
What is a spring?
500
The rising and sinking of cold and warm layers in a lake
What is Turnover?
500
The density of a rectangular object with l=2cm, w=3cm, h=4cm, and a mass of 12 g?
What is 1/2 g/cm3?
500
The fraction of an iceberg that is below the surface.
What is 7/8?
500
This may rise and fall, depending on the season and how much rain falls and how much water is used.