WorksheetsFreshwater
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Difference between a lake and a pond.
Size and depth
One is salt water the other not.
Water lilies are found in lakes.
They are both the same.
Type of well.
Spring
Streams
Permeable
Artesian well
Underground water trapped in permeable rock.
Lakes
Glaciers
Aquifers
Eutrophication
Icebergs contain salty water from the ocean.
True
False
Maybe
Process that takes many years, where nutrients are build up in the pond, causing more algae to grow a thick green scum.
Photosynthesis.
Eutrophication.
Water table
None is correct.
Ways in which lakes form
Tectonic movement
Dam built by humans
Crater from volcanic eruptions
All are correct
Zones in a pond
Litoral and Lunatic
Litenic and Fluvial
Litoral and Limnetic
They don't have zones.
Retreating glaciers can form lakes and ponds.
True
False
Groundwater is still water, it doesn't move or go anywhere.
True
False
Combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Geosphere
The majority of freshwater is located in
Lakes and ponds
Groundwater
Glaciers
Rivers
Water cycle steps include
Infiltration, precipitation, evaporation and condensation
Just Precipitation, condensation
Just evaporation and condensation
Evaporation, condensation, litoral and limnetic
All freshwater eventually will end up in the ocean.
True
False
River is water that is not flowing.
True
False
Continental divides are found only in America.
True
False
A watershed includes all or a lot of the types of freshwater in an area of land.
True
False
Parts of a river system include
Effluent, affluent, tributaries and distributaries.
Effluent, tributaries, limnetic and litoral.
Tributaries, distributaries, litoral.
Main river, streams and ponds.
The great divide is formed by the divides os North America and Australia.
True
False
A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another.
Aquifer
Divide
Ice caps
Eutrophication
Freshwater makes up what percentage of Earth's water distribution.
0.3%
68.9%
2.5%
30.8%
