Hydrosphere 2

If water is recycled in the atmosphere, which best describes why water availability on Earth is decreasing?

• An increase in droughts is slowly reducing freshwater reservoirs

• Earth's freshwater continues to become polluted, reducing the supply of freshwater safe for humans to consume

• Due to an increase in Earth's temperature, evaporation rates continue to increase reducing liquid water on the surface

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Which has the greatest long-term impact on local water availability?

• pollution

• climate

• runoff

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Which best describes why melting icebergs to obtain freshwater can be harmful to our environment?

• It can cause temperature change in water and climate change in a region

• It can increase the habitats of arctic animals

• It can be costly and complicated to transport the icebergs.

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Which is true concerning the structure of the hydrosphere?

• There are many oceans with many basins.

• There is one ocean with one basin.

• The ocean is connected to many lakes, watersheds, and waterways.

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Which is true about approximately 80% of Earth's water supply?

• It exists as saltwater

• It is not moving.

• It is moving.

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Which contains most of the water on Earth?

• lakes

• oceans

• ponds

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Which is an incorrect order of the water cycle?

• evaporation, precipitation, condensation

• evaporation, condensation, precipitation

• precipitation, evaporation, condensation

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Which is true?

• Ice caps consist mostly of salt water.

• The ocean consists mostly of freshwater

• Rivers and streams transport nutrients, salts, sediments, and pollutants from watersheds to estuaries and to the ocean

Which phase of water in the water cycle best drives weather and climate as it travels around the Earth?

• Water vapor

• ice

• rain

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