Hydrosphere

Question 1

Kettle

Answer 1

Lake formed from glaciers

Question 2

Reservoirs

Answer 2

Man-made lakes

Question 3

Oxbow

Answer 3

Lakes formed from meandering streams

Question 4

Sinkhole

Answer 4

Lakes formed from dissolved limestone

Question 5

Largest water shed

Answer 5

Mississippi River

Question 6

What water shed do we belong to?

Answer 6

Neuse River

Question 7

What major tributary flows through Raleigh?

Answer 7

Crabtree

Question 8

Biotic Index

Answer 8

Determines water quality. 0 is good 10 is bad

Question 9

Dissolved minerals and gases

Answer 9

Homogeneous, solution

Question 10

Stream Bond

Answer 10

Everything a stream can carry

Question 11

5 Major Oceans least to greatest (Pink Alligators Include Swans Never)

Answer 11

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Northern

Question 12

Brackish

Answer 12

Mix of fresh and salty water

Question 13

Three wetlands

Answer 13

Swamps, bogs, and marshes

Question 14

Porosity

Answer 14

Materials ability to absorb water

Question 15

Why are wetlands important?

Answer 15

Naturally purifies water and flood control.

Question 16

Permeability

Answer 16

Materials ability to let water pass through

Question 17

Confined Aquifer

Answer 17

Impermeable layer that prevents water from seeping into it.

Question 18

Zone of Aeration

Answer 18

Area underground mostly with air in its pores.

Question 19

Zone of Saturation

Answer 19

Area underground with water in its pores

Question 20

Unconfined Aquifer

Answer 20

Allows water to seep directly into it.

Question 21

Aquiclude

Answer 21

Layer between the zone of aeration and zone of saturation

Question 22

Water Table

Answer 22

Impermeable layer that prevents water low into an aquifer

Question 23

Artesian

Answer 23

Wells that do not require a pump

Question 24

Spring

Answer 24

When the water table is located at the Earths surface

Question 25

Recharge

Answer 25

Natural refilling aquifer

Question 26

Geyser

Answer 26

Spring that erupts from the ground with lots of force and pressure

Question 27

Ocean water density depends on

Answer 27

Temperature and Salinity

Question 28

Warmest, most sunlit, photosynthesis part of ocean

Answer 28

Euphotic

Question 29

Limited light ocean layer

Answer 29

Disphotic

Question 30

Bioluminescence, deepest, coldest, darkest layer

Answer 30

Aphotic

Question 31

When moon and sun are aligned earth has a

Answer 31

Spring tide with a larger tide than normal

Question 32

When the sun and moon are perpendicular earth has a

Answer 32

neap tide with a smaller tide than normal

Question 33

Density currents

Answer 33

deep water, slow moving

Question 34

Surface Currents

Answer 34

Surface, fast moving

Question 35

North of equator

Answer 35

Clockwise, N pacific, N atlantic

Question 36

South of equator

Answer 36

Counterclockwise, S pacific, S atlantic, Indian

Question 37

Global Conveyor Belt

Answer 37

Mixing ocean waters, moves towards poles, water sinks and cools, connects density currents and surface currents, takes roughly 4,000 for all ocean water to mix

Question 38

Thermohaline

Answer 38

temp and salinity