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Freshwater

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Difference between a lake and a pond.

a)

Size and depth

b)

One is salt water the other not.

c)

Water lilies are found in lakes.

d)

They are both the same.

2.

Type of well.

a)

Spring

b)

Streams

c)

Permeable

d)

Artesian well

3.

Underground water trapped in permeable rock.

a)

Lakes

b)

Glaciers

c)

Aquifers

d)

Eutrophication

4.

Icebergs contain salty water from the ocean.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe

5.

Process that takes many years, where nutrients are build up in the pond, causing more algae to grow a thick green scum.

a)

Photosynthesis.

b)

Eutrophication.

c)

Water table

d)

None is correct.

6.

Ways in which lakes form

a)

Tectonic movement

b)

Dam built by humans

c)

Crater from volcanic eruptions

d)

All are correct

7.

Zones in a pond

a)

Litoral and Lunatic

b)

Litenic and Fluvial

c)

Litoral and Limnetic

d)

They don't have zones.

8.

Retreating glaciers can form lakes and ponds.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Groundwater is still water, it doesn't move or go anywhere.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.

a)

Atmosphere

b)

Hydrosphere

c)

Biosphere

d)

Geosphere

11.

The majority of freshwater is located in

a)

Lakes and ponds

b)

Groundwater

c)

Glaciers

d)

Rivers

12.

Water cycle steps include

a)

Infiltration, precipitation, evaporation and condensation

b)

Just Precipitation, condensation

c)

Just evaporation and condensation

d)

Evaporation, condensation, litoral and limnetic

13.

All freshwater eventually will end up in the ocean.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

River is water that is not flowing.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Continental divides are found only in America.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

A watershed includes all or a lot of the types of freshwater in an area of land.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Parts of a river system include

a)

Effluent, affluent, tributaries and distributaries.

b)

Effluent, tributaries, limnetic and litoral.

c)

Tributaries, distributaries, litoral.

d)

Main river, streams and ponds.

18.

The great divide is formed by the divides os North America and Australia.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another.

a)

Aquifer

b)

Divide

c)

Ice caps

d)

Eutrophication

20.

Freshwater makes up what percentage of Earth's water distribution.

a)

0.3%

b)

68.9%

c)

2.5%

d)

30.8%