Fresh & Salt Water Systems Flashcards
What percentage is Salt Water? Where is it found?
97% Oceans Seas Waves Tides
What percentage of Water is Fresh? Where is it?
3%
Lakes and Ponds, Running Water
Where is Frozen Water?
Ice Caps
Glaciers
What is Potable Water?
Fresh water
What is Salinity?
Salt Content
How can you purify Water?
Distillation, Evaporation. Filtration. Reverse Osmosis
What are forms of pollution in Water Systems?
Agriculture, Fertilizer, Pesticides, Turbidity Forestry Water treatmetnt, Septic tanks Ground Water, Aquifer Surface Water, OIl Spills
From the Continental drift theory, what are on the ocean bottoms along Tectonic Plates?
Trenches
Ridges
What are evident from retreating Glaciers?
Eskers, Kettle Lakes, Moraines, Erratic, Drumlins
What are Eskers?
A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, winding, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier
What is a Kettle Lake?
Isolated body of water left form melted glaciers
Dumlins
Teardrop shped hills left from glaciers
What is an Eratic?
Piece of Rock which was carried by a glacier. eg, Big Rock , Okotoks