GG Vocabulary Water quality and distribution

Glaciers

• a fast moving mass of ice usually made from compacted snow on mountains.

• slow moving water that is not frozen.

• a slow moving mass of ice usually made from compacted snow on mountains.

• A mountain made of water and ice best used for skiing.

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What is a Marine Biologist?

• A scientist that studies life in the oceans.

• A scientist that studies life on land.

• A scientist that studies life in rivers.

• A scientist that studies life in lakes.

What does water quality mean?

• How much water there is for humans to use.

• Measurement of the condition of water and how clean it is for living things, including humans.

• How much water there is for animals to use.

• The measurement of all the water on Earth.

What is Surface Runoff?

• Water from a river that ends up on land.

• Water from the ocean that ends up in a river

• Water from only melted snow that ends up on land.

• Water from rain or snow that flows over land before ending up in a body of water.

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What is a watershed?

• A large area of land that drains into a body of water.

• A small area of land that drains into more land.

• A body of water with no land nearby.

• A lake or a river.

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What is a storm drain?

• A pipe that drains water into rivers.

• A sewer that drains excess rain and groundwater from streets, parks and sidewalks.

• A river that drains water into lakes.

• A lake that holds wastewater.

What is a sediment filter?

• A thing that removes worms from water.

• Something that takes particles too small to be seen out of sand.

• A type of filter that separates out large particles that can get into water.

• Something that filters bacteria out of water.

What is filtration?

• The process of removing unwanted parts from something.

• The process of putting things into something else.

• The process of removing stones from sand.

• The process of adding sand to water.