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A World of Water
Frozen Water
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Topic 3-4 Review
100
This type of water makes up 97% of Earth's water.
What is salt water?
100

Antarctica and Greenland are examples of these.

What are continental glaciers?
100
The amount of matter suspended in the water determines this.
What is clarity?
100
Large ripples, set in motion by steady winds.
What are ocean waves?
100

A land feature that determines the ocean that water flows into in North America

What is the continental divide?

200
These two changes of state are responsible for returning water to the Earth in the water cycle.
What are precipitation and condensation?
200
The steps to forming glacial ice.
What is new snow falls, old snow turns into granular snow under pressure, increasing pressure is applied to the granular snow by the weight of the new snow, air is forced out, glacial ice forms?
200
The five common types of wetlands in Alberta.
What are bogs, fens, marshes, swamps and shallow-open water?
200

These tides occur twice per month, when the Moon is in a straight line with the Earth and Sun.

What are spring tides?

200

The total amount of salt dissolved in water determines it's ________________.

What is salinity?

300
Most of the 3% of freshwater on Earth is contained here.
What is in ice or a frozen state?
300

The act of when a continental glacier breaks off into the ocean.

What is calving?

300

Alberta is special because it has a watershed that flows all the way into ____________________.

What is the Gulf of Mexico?

300

These currents dictate much of the climate in North America and other countries surrounding the Atlantic Ocean.

What are the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current?

300

List two ways that humans utilize to prevent beach erosion?

Answers vary.

What are Jetties, Groins, Seawalls, and Breakers?

400
The characteristics of a water resource that make it suitable for various uses.
What is water quality?
400
This occurs when a glacier melts faster than it flows.
What is retreating?
400

How fast a river or stream is moving. Measure in L/s.

What is flowrate?

400

This is formed where the edge of an ocean plate pushes against the edge of a continental plate. Considered to be the deepest parts of the ocean.

What is a trench?

400

This area of the ocean is where water temperature drastically changes from deep to shallow.

What is the thermocline?

500
These four countries hold nearly half of Earth's renewable fresh water.
What are Brazil, Canada, China and the USA?
500

Four pieces of evidence (physical landforms) that will identify that a glacier was present at one time.

What are moraines, cirques, horns and aretes?

500
The level below the ground in which porous rock is saturated with water.
What is the water table?
500

Sediment from continents, brought to the ocean floor by massive landslides accumulates here. Between the continental slope and ocean ridges.

What are abyssal plains?

500

This type of water is safe for human consumption.

What is potable water?