Bodies of Water
What is a very large body of salt water?
Ocean
What percent of Earth's water is in the ocean?
97%
Where is all of the salt water found?
Oceans and Seas
Water falls abruptly from one elevation to a lower elevation
A Waterfall.
The process where water is continuously traveling between the surface and sky, then back to the surface is called...
Water cycle
What is a natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another body of water?
River
What percent of the Earth is covered in water?
71%
Where is most of the Fresh Water found?
In Lakes or Glaciers
What is a large body of salt water, partly enclosed by a land mass and open into the ocean?
The Sea
Slope or gravity
What is a large body of freshwater surrounded by land?
A Lake
What percent of Earth is covered by glaciers?
10%
Where is the smallest amount of fresh water found?
rivers, swamps etc.
What is a small, narrow river?
A stream
Tributaries
What is an area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects?
A Swamp
What percent of Earth is covered in fresh water?
3%
Can you drink the Ocean water?
No, it contains salt?
What is water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface?
Groundwater
A snake looking stream or river is called a....
Meander
What is a slow-moving mass of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near poles?
A Glacier
What are the five oceans?
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Southern Ocean
What type of water makes up glaciers?
Fresh Water
What is a large area of an ocean or a sea that is partially enclosed by land?
A Gulf
Name two ways eutrophication occurs
Plants die, animals die, deposits from rivers/streams, human pollution or waste, environment