10.3

Question 1

What’s are some factors affecting run off?

Answer 1

The nature of the ground material
The amount of rain
The length of the time it rains 
The slope of the land 
The amount of vegetation
The amount of development in the area

Question 2

Drainage basin?

Answer 2

The area of land on which precipitation falls and works its way into a common river

Question 3

What usually separates a drainage basin?

Answer 3

A divide

Question 4

Divide?

Answer 4

A area of high ground

Question 5

Ground water?

Answer 5

The water that makes its way into the spars of rocks

Question 6

What are rocks called when they have many pores?

Answer 6

Good porosity

Question 7

aquifer?

Answer 7

A layer of rock that is porous and allows water to flow through

Question 8

Reservoir?

Answer 8

Large human made or natural lakes that store water until people need it

Question 9

Well?

Answer 9

Very deep, narrow hole drilled or dug into the ground to a depth where water can be found

Question 10

What level does the water table lie at?

Answer 10

Zone of saturation

Question 11

What is below the zone of saturation?

Answer 11

Pore spaces between rock particles are filled with water

Question 12

Is a water table deeper in the desert or in a forest beside a lake?

Answer 12

Desert

Question 13

Is a water table deeper in the summer or winter?why?

Answer 13

In the summer because during the wet months of winter more water soaks into the ground from rain or snow

Question 14

How much of the earth is covered in glaciers?

Answer 14

About two thirds

Question 15

Glacier?

Answer 15

Large masses of snow and ice

Question 16

How do glaciers form?

Answer 16

More snow needs to fall in the winter than melt in the summer

Question 17

How much do glaciers cover the worlds land area?

Answer 17

10%

Question 18

What are the types of glaciers?

Answer 18

Alpine and continental

Question 19

Alpine glaciers?

Answer 19

Located in mountain areas

Question 20

Continental glaciers?

Answer 20

Massive and cover large areas of land

Question 21

Where r the two most large ice sheets found in the world

Answer 21

Antarctica and Greenland

Question 22

He’ll do glaciers play a big role in the water cycle?

Answer 22

In the last ice age, glaciers covered most of the earth. The water that should’ve been moving through the water cycle was frozen in ice. Ocean levels dropped to about 100m less than they are today.