Earth's Water

A city dams a river, making a lake that stores its freshwater. This is an example of a

• aquifer

• reservoir

• lake

• ocean

What is the proper name of an underground water supply called?

• aquifer

• reservoir

• well

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Nearly _________________ of the Earth is covered by water.

• 1/2

• 2/3

• 3/4

• all of them

About how much of all water on Earth comes from the salty Ocean?

• 3 %

• 30 %

• 97 %

• 69 %

What has the highest amount of freshwater?

• Swamps

• Lakes

• Groundwater

• Glaciers and Ice Caps

What is a slowly moving body of ice on land?

• Ice cap

• Glacier

• Ice Cap from Tim Horton's.

• Permafrost

According to our reading, what do you call a swirling motion that moves ocean water around the globe?

• Tide

• Moon

• Circulation

• salinity tide

What do you call the rising and falling patterns caused by the pul of gravity?

• tides

• floods

• salinity

• The coolest bug found during Art.

The amount of salt dissolved in water.

• oceanity

• hyper salinity

• saline tide

• salinity

What part of the water cycle causes water vapor to form liquid water or ice crystals, sometimes forming a cloud.

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

• run off with road runner