Earth's Water Distribution
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- Q 1/20Score 0the percent of Earth's water that is salt water2997%
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- Q1the percent of Earth's water that is salt water97%30sEditDelete
- Q2the percent of Earth's water that is fresh water (rivers, lakes, underground, ice-caps, and glaciers)3%30sEditDelete
- Q3the percent of Earth's water that is frozen (ice-caps and glaciers)2%30sEditDelete
- Q4the percent of Earth's water that is usable liquid form1%30sEditDelete
- Q5the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water70%30sEditDelete
- Q6water that collects above the ground in rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, and wetlandssurface water30sEditDelete
- Q7a layer of rock underground that collects and stores wateraquifer30sEditDelete
- Q8water located below Earth's surface that collects in aquifersgroundwater30sEditDelete
- Q9water from rain and melted snow that flows over the land and collects in bodies of waterrunoff30sEditDelete
- Q10is a huge sheet of ice that moves slowly on landglacier30sEditDelete
- Q11is an area of land that drains into rivers or lake-sometimes called drainage basins or river basinswatershed30sEditDelete
- Q12is the use of artificial methods to supply water to plants-mostly food crops and lawns (sprinkler systems)irrigation30sEditDelete
- Q13total amount of dissolved salts in water (saltiness of water)salinity30sEditDelete
- Q14borders eastern Asia, northeastern Australia, Antarctic, & western North & South America; largest & deepest oceanPacific Ocean30sEditDelete
- Q15borders western Europe, western Africa, Antarctica, & eastern North & South America; 1/2 the size of the Pacific (2nd largest ocean)Atlantic Ocean30sEditDelete
- Q16the third largest ocean between Africa and AustraliaIndian Ocean30sEditDelete
- Q17located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions.Artic Ocean30sEditDelete
- Q18extends from the coast of Antarctica to 60 degrees south latitude (4th largest ocean)Southern Ocean30sEditDelete
- Q19All the water on or surrounding the surface of the Earth (oceans, lakes, rivers, water in the atmosphere)Hydrosphere30sEditDelete
- Q20The branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservationHydrology30sEditDelete
