ACP Review: Hydrologic Cycle, Watersheds, & Hydrosphere

How much of Earth’s water is drinkable?

• 3%

• 97%

• Less than 1%

• 71%

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 Water naturally exists in....

• Solid Form only

• Liquid Form only

• Gaseous Form only

• Solid, Liquid, and Gas states of matter

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Why is  most of the Earth’s freshwater is not accessible for drinking?

• It is trapped in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

• It is trapped as groundwate

• It is frozen in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost

• we can't drink from surface water such as lake michigan

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_________describes the concentration of salt and other minerals in water

What percentage of the Earth is covered by oceans?

• About 71%

• About 98%

• About 85%

• Less than 1%

Which of the following is FALSE about surface currents?

• They form gyres

• They are influenced by solar heating

• They are influenced by the Coriolis Effect

• They are affected by density and salinity

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The great______ garbage patch is a mass of floatable trash held together by surface currents of an oceanic gyre.

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______ percent of the ocean is influenced by deep ocean currents.

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The Great Conveyor Belt takes ___________ to circulate deep ocean currents.

• 1,000 years

• 1,000 days

• 100 hours

• 15 minutes

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Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationship between salinity and density in the ocean?

• As salinity increases, density increases

• As salinity increases, density decreases

• As salinity decreases, the water floats easily

• water that is more dense floats easily