Distribution of Water
Water Quality
Waves and Tides
Erosion & Deposition
Ocean Basins
Water and Climate
100
What does POTABLE mean?
Safe to drink
100
What does salinity measure?
The amount of salts in water.
100
____________ are changes in patterns that move along the water’s surface.
Waves
100
_____________: a large, slow-moving river of ice that forms when snow piles up and gets compressed into ice over many years.
Glacier
100
___________ are shallow areas around the edges of the continents. Continantal _________________
Continental Shelf
100
___________ is the average weather measured over a long period of time.
Climate
200
What watershed does PC belong to?
Oldman
200
How many people in the world drink dirty water every day?
Over 1 billion.
200
True or false: Waves move water in an ocean.
False. They move energy but not water.
200
___________ is the transportation of sediments from one place to another.
Erosion
200
T____________ form where two plates are moving toward each other. The thinner oceanic plate is pushed down below the thicker continental plate.
Trenches
200
How do the mountains affect the climate of Pincher Creek?
They block the moist air from the Pacific in what is called a rainshadow.
300
What percent of the Earth's water is ice?
97%
300
_________ water contains a high concentration of the minerals calcium and magnesium.
Hard
300
Most waves are caused by the ____________.
Wind
300
______________: When materials like sand, pebbles, or rocks are dropped in a new place after being carried by wind, water, or ice
Deposition
300
_________ form from rocks and gravel that build up along the sides and at the end of the glacier.
A. Drumlins
B. Morraines
C. Eskers
B
300
How do the Rockies affect the weather of Pincher Creek?
Warm, dry winds called Chinooks.
400
Of the world's fresh water (3%), what percent of that is ice?
77%
400
Water is tested for pH. Water with a low pH can kill fish. What does pH measure?
How acidic the water is.
400
the regular rise and fall of sea levels are...
Tides
400
______________: the breakdown of rocks into sediments.
Weathering.
400
Small round lakes made by glaciers
Kettle Lakes
400
Warm winds that are the result of the Rocky Mountains are called
Chinooks
500
True or False: Most of the world's fresh water is found in lakes rivers and streams.
False: most of it is in ice.
500
In water, organisms such as E. coli can cause sickness and even death.
E. Coli
500
Tides are caused by the...
Moons gravity
500
Weathering that caused by things like carbonic acid that reacts with rocks to break them down.
______________ weathering.
Chemical
500
Drumlins are small hills with a distinctive teardrop shape. They are formed by:
A. Erosion
B. Deposition
C. Weathering
B.
500
Warm ocean currents that give PC warm and dry winters
El Nino