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Fresh water
Water Cycle
River Systems
Changing Earth
Missouri
100
ice, rivers, lakes, groundwater
What are the sources of fresh water?
100
The process in which molecules at the surface of liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river.
What are tributaries?
100
build up in a lake
What is eutrophication?
100
Mississippi
What is the major river that borders Missouri?
200
two thirds
What fraction of the Earth's fresh water is in the form of ice?
200
The process in which water fall to earth.
What is precipitation?
200
land areas that supplies water to a river.
What is a watershed?
200
organism release waste and die building up the bottom of the lake.
How does a lake become a meadow.
200
Truman Lake
What is the nearest reservoir?
300
water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
What is groundwater?
300
Water that moves across the land to lakes, rivers and seashores.
What is runoff?
300
separates watersheds?
What is divide?
300
Plants in the water cannot carry out photosynthesis.
What happens when the sunlight is blocked in a lake?
300
Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, White, Osage
List the major waterways(rivers) in Missouri.
400
The percent of fresh water out of all the water on the earth.
What is 3%?
400
The process in which water in given off through leaves.
What is transpiration?
400
a lake which stores water for human use.
What is reservoir?
400
The process in which soil and rock is changed by water and air.
What is erosion?
400
Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake, Clearwater Lake, Lake Wappapello
List the major lakes in Missouri
500
These contain about 20% of all the water the world's freshwater lakes.
What are the great lakes?
500
water moves between land, living things, bodies of water and the atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
500
Missouri
What is the major tributary in Missouri?
500
It separates watersheds.
What is a divide?
500
Algonquian Indian word that means "river of the big canoes"
What is the origin of the name Missouri?