Freshwater Sink Or Swim

1. Freshwater SinkOr Swim

2. Question What percent of the Earth’s water is salt water? Answer 97%

3. Question What powers the Water cycle? Answer The Sun

4. Question Letting your towel dry is an example of what? Answer Evaporation

5. Question What stage in the water cycle gains energy Answer evaporation

6. Question Water that is absorbed by the ground becomes groundwater if the soil horizons are _______________. Answer Permeable

7. Question Rain, sleet, and hail are all examples of what? Answer Precipitation

8. Question Transpiration is water vapor given off by? Answer plants

9. Question Which is not a type of mechanical weathering: Abrasion, animals, oxidation, ice wedging Answer oxidation

10. Question The total amount of water on Earth is ___________ Answer Staying the same

11. Question In order to move from the ocean to the atmosphere, a water molecule must ______________. Answer Gain energy

12. Question If you see water droplets on your mirror after you have taken a hot shower, you are seeing _____. Answer Condensation

13. Question What percent of all fresh water is actually on the surface? Answer 1%

14. Question The arrow is pointing to the top of the groundwater, or saturated zone. What is this called? Answer Water table

15. Question Tiny openings in and between particles of a rock or soil that can contain water is called: _______ Answer Porosity

16. Question Pollution from a pipe from paper factory is an example of what type of pollution? Answer Point-source

17. Question Most fresh water is found in what form? Answer ice

18. Question A rock that can hold water is called an ______ Answer Aquifer

19. Question What stage in the water cycle produces clouds? Answer condensation

20. Question What is this picture displaying? Answer Transpiration

21. Question A rock containing IRON becomes soft, crumbly, and REDDISH-BROWN in color. It probably has been chemically weathered by ______. Answer oxygen

22. Question The place where a river meets the ocean and deposits it’s load, is called what? Answer A delta

23. Question Changing liquid water to gas, is what stage in the water cycle? Answer evaporation

24. Question What type of rock are most fossils found in? Answer Sedimentary

25. Question Suwanee Creek flows into the Chatahoochee river. Suwanee creek is an example of what? Answer A tributary

26. Question Land that is covered part of the year by shallow water and contains important habitats for many species is called what? Answer Swamp/wet lands

27. Question What is this an example of? Answer Evamporation

28. Question The ability for water to flow through a rock is called it’s _________ Answer permeability

29. Question What contains more water…groundwater or surface water? Answer groundwater

30. Question What is the FIRST thing that has to happen in the development of soil? Answer Rocks must get weathered

31. Question Fertilizer from a farm is an example of what kind of pollution? Answer Non-point source

32. Question The area above the aquifer where there is no water is called the ____ zone. Answer unsaturated

33. Question Clay is ____ because it has no connected pores to allow water to pass through. Answer impermeable

34. Question An alluvial fan is an example of what process? Answer Deposition

35. Question What kind of water do glaciers contain? Answer Fresh water

36. Question How much of the Earth is covered by water? Answer 70%

37. Question Rain the falls onto the road during a thunderstorm is an example of what? Answer Runoff