Earth's Waters

In the diagram, letter B best represents:

• Unconfined Aquifer

• Confining Layer

• Confined Aquifer

• Recharge Zone

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In the diagram, letter D best represents:

• Unconfined Aquifer

• Confining Layer

• Confined Aquifer

• Recharge Zone

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In the diagram, letter E best represents:

• A well

• A factory that's contaminating the aquifers

• A Watershed

• A pump that recharges the aquifer

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During the process of infiltration, water seeps through the ground and into an aquifer. Which of the following terms best describes this process?

• Recharge

• Discharge

• Depletion

• Surcharge

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______ causes surface currents.

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• density differences

• wind

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

______ causes deep ocean currents

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• wind

• density differences

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Decreasing ocean temperature causes the density of the water to ______.

• decrease

• increase

• stay the same

• fluctuate

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Gyres in the southern hemisphere are surface currents that turn _________ due to the Coriolis Effect.

• clockwise

• counterclockwise

• toward the right

• toward the bottom of the ocean

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The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean produced by wind and the Coriolis effect

• California Current

• Upwelling

• Gyre

• Global Conveyor Belt

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Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole (Polar zone)

• The South Pole (Polar zone)

• The Equator (Tropical zone)

• Both North and South Poles

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