Fresh & Salt Water Systems Flashcards

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What percentage is Salt Water? Where is it found?

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97%
Oceans
Seas
Waves
Tides
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What percentage of Water is Fresh? Where is it?

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3%

Lakes and Ponds, Running Water

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Where is Frozen Water?

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Ice Caps

Glaciers

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What is Potable Water?

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Fresh water

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What is Salinity?

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Salt Content

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How can you purify Water?

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Distillation, Evaporation. Filtration. Reverse Osmosis

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What are forms of pollution in Water Systems?

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Agriculture, Fertilizer, Pesticides, Turbidity
Forestry
Water treatmetnt, Septic tanks
Ground Water, Aquifer
Surface Water, OIl Spills
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From the Continental drift theory, what are on the ocean bottoms along Tectonic Plates?

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Trenches

Ridges

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What are evident from retreating Glaciers?

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Eskers, Kettle Lakes, Moraines, Erratic, Drumlins

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What are Eskers?

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A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, winding, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier

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What is a Kettle Lake?

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Isolated body of water left form melted glaciers

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Dumlins

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Teardrop shped hills left from glaciers

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What is an Eratic?

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Piece of Rock which was carried by a glacier. eg, Big Rock , Okotoks

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