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A World of Water
Watershed Definitions
Fresh Water
Oceans
Facts and definitions
100
This type of water makes up 97% of Earth's water.
What is salt water?
100
A slow moving, winding River

What is meandering?

100

The amount of matter suspended in the water determines this.

What is clarity? or what is turbidity?

100
Large ripples, set in motion by steady winds.
What are ocean waves?
100

the breaking down of things via wind and water

What is erosion?

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 fast moving, start of a river

What is headwaters? 

200

The part of a river with the most dissolved O2

What is headwater?

200

The movement of water in an out by the shoreline each day

What are tides?

200

The dropping off of sediments further down a watershed

What is deposition?

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

Where a river meets the tides of the ocean

What is an estuary?

300

Drinkable water 

What is potable?

300

the zone where the largest aquatic species live 

What is open ocean (or open ocean)

300
The amount of salt dissolved in water

What is Salinity?

400
The characteristics of a water resource that make it suitable for various uses.
What is water quality?
400

An area where the land is saturated (either permanently or seasonally)

What is a wetland? 

400

Calgary is part of this drainage basin.

What is the bow river basin?

400

The zone with the most biodiversity 

What is shallow seas/near shore?

400
Large scale us of water on farmland

What is Irrigation?

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

A lake that has been separated from a river over time

What is an oxbow? 

500
The level below the ground in which porous rock is saturated with water.
What is the water table?
500
This is formed where the edge of an ocean plate pushes against the edge of a continental plate.
What is a trench?
500

The two affects that large bodies of water has on the land

Mild Temperatures

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