Chapter 8 Review

Water scarcity is:

• A region not receiving enough rain for plants.

• A region not receiving enough water to meet its people’s needs.

• A region that chops down all of its trees.

• A region that goes to war over water.

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Surface currents are a result of

• Global wind patterns

• Earth’s rotation

• Shape of ocean basins

• All of the above

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Most of the Earth’s fresh water supply is found where?

• Oceans

• Glaciers

• Lakes

• Underground

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Why is life at the bottom of the ocean sparse?

• There is no light.

• The pressure is extreme.

• It is exceedingly cold.

• All of the above.

In an aquifer, pore spaces above this line do not contain water and below this line do contain water.

• Impermeable layer

• Bedrock

• Water table

• Spring

Which of these can be a reservoir for water? 

• Ocean

• Atmosphere

• Puddle

• All of the above

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Ocean currents transfer energy from the

• Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere.

• Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere.

• Equatorial region to the Polar Regions.

• Polar Regions to the equatorial region.

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This drives the water cycle.

• The ocean

• The sun

• The core

• The air

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The neritic zone is the zone where

• Photosynthesis takes place.

• The low tide mark and slopes gradually downward to the edge of the seaward side of the continental shelf.

• Sunlight doesn’t penetrate.

• None of these.

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Nearly all of the food is the ocean is made in the  ___?_____ zone, but nearly all of the water in the ocean is in the ___?____ zone.

• Photic; aphotic

• Aphotic; photic

• luminescent; aluminescent

• aluminescent; luminescent