ES Final Review Part 2

How is the term “reservoir” used to describe water in Earth systems?

• The movement of water

• Purification of water

• A place where water is found

• The water stored behind a dam

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How does the sun move water?

• it allows condensation to occur

• it evaporates water into the air

• it heats the land

• it allows water to dissolve substances

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How do plants contribute to the water cycle?

• plants store water and release it through transpiration

• plants remove water from the air and make it into food

• plants are an important source of new water for clouds

• plants need water to grow but do not release it late

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Why must water be clean for people to drink?

• Dirty water can cause sickness/death

• Dirty water does not taste good

• Dirty water clogs pipes in homes

• Dirty water looks unattractive

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Why is water easily polluted?

• There is more water than anything else

• It is found in the air and on land

• Many substances dissolve in it

• It is a substance with high density

Which property makes water unusual?

• it is less dense as a solid

• it is transparent as a liquid

• it forms a gas at room temperature

• it cannot change from a solid to a gas

What causes tides?

• Wind and current action on the water

• The rising and sinking of beach fronts

• The movement of faults in ocean floors

• The pull of gravity from the moon & sun

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What are the two sources of Earth’s internal heat energy?

• Heat of formation and Radioactive Decay

• Sunlight and Moonlight

• Gravity and Background Radiation

• Radiation and Solar Energy

What does “chemical composition” refer to?

• How Earth’s layers interact with each other

• Chemical reactions that take place in Earth’s layers

• The kinds of atoms and molecules Earth’s layers are made of

• The physical properties of Earth’s layers

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 Meteorites are often used to infer the structure of Internal Earth. Why?

• All materials from space are made of only Iron.

• Traveling through the atmosphere alters the meteorite.

• Meteorites and the Earth were both formed from the same nebula.

• Meteorites were once part of Earth.

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