Earth's Waters

What weather system might be occurring if the trade winds in the Pacific are stronger than normal?

• The Jet Stream

• La Niña

• Upwelling

• El Niño

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Why would a civilization choose to live near a river that regularly floods?

• The presence of a higher bed load

• The presence of a higher suspended load

• The presence of tributaries in the flood plain

• The presence of alluvium in the flood plain

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What is a property of soil that determines how water will soak through the ground?

• Permeability

• Aquifer

• Capillary action

• Gravity

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Which way does water move once it reaches the water table?

• Sideways

• Up

• Down

• It stops moving.

If you were a plant, which zone would be most difficult to live in?

• Benthic

• Profundal

• Limnetic

• Sediment

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Why does Earth have a liquid water supply and Mars does not?

• Mars is much larger than Earth.

• Mars is too cold.

• Earth was never bombarded with comets.

• Mars has no magnetic field.

A wave with a height of 5 feet and a wavelength of 15 feet has a wave base of ____.

• 3 feet

• 7.5 feet

• 6 feet

• 12 feet

currents are caused by temperature and density differences.

• Deep

• Surface
• Longshore

• Tsunami

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What does the Coriolis effect cause?

• Currents to bend to the right — clockwise — in the Northern Hemisphere

• Currents to bend to the left — counterclockwise — in the Northern Hemisphere

• Currents to bend to the right — clockwise — regardless of location

• Currents to bend to the left — counterclockwise — regardless of location

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Why does ice have a different density than liquid water?

• It has several different kinds of molecules.

• It has lighter molecules.

• It has more molecules.

• It has a different amount of space between molecules.

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