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Hydrology Core Review

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which reservoir contains most of the Earth's water?

a)

Groundwater

b)

Ice Caps and Glaciers

c)

Lakes

d)

Oceans

2.

Which reservoir contains most of the Earth's fresh water?

a)

Groundwater

b)

Ice Caps and Glaciers

c)

Lakes

d)

Oceans

3.

Which of these are abiotic factors in a freshwater ecosystem?

a)

Algae and other plants

b)

Fish

c)

Predation by mammals living around the pound

d)

Weather/PH/temperature

4.

Which abiotic factor would you test in an experiment on the effects of abiotic factors on fish?

a)

Acidity of the water

b)

Invertebrates found in the water

c)

Species of plants growing in the lake

d)

Predator/Prey relationships between fish and birds

5.

Which word describes water moving from the ocean and turning into a gas?

a)

Evaporation

b)

Transpiration

c)

Precipitation

d)

Percolation

6.

Which word describes water seeping into the ground

a)

Evaporation

b)

Transpiration

c)

Precipitation

d)

Infiltration/Percolation

7.

Which of the following plays a large part in water moving up the small tubes that make up trees from the roots to the leaves?

a)

Adhesion

b)

Capillary Action

c)

Cohesion

d)

Universal Solvent

8.

Which of the following would result in heavy materials settling on the bottom of a large pool to remove some of the solids from the liquid wastes?

a)

Aeration

b)

Distillation

c)

Filtration

d)

Sedimentation

9.

If the ocean’s salt comes from rivers, why is the ocean so much more salty than the rivers flowing into it?

a)

All water has the same salinity.

b)

It’s not, the ocean ‘s salinity is the same as most river’s salinity.

c)

Because the ocean has accumulated salt from runoff over millions of years, as water evaporates from the ocean, it leaves all the salt behind.

d)

The ocean doesn’t get most of its salt from rivers. Most of it comes from precipitation.

10.

Which of the following causes ocean currents

a)

Boats and big sharks

b)

The Moon

c)

Underwater Volcanoes

d)

Wind and density differences in the water

11.

What causes tides?

a)

The pull of gravity on the oceans by our Moon

b)

The pull of gravity on the oceans by our Sun

c)

The pull of gravity on the oceans by our Moon and Sun

d)

The pull of gravity on the oceans by our galaxy