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All questions for the test on Hydrosphere

Total questions: 68

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

These are characteristics of an ocean. Choose the odd one.

a)

Mean depths is 3900 m.

b)

Mean temperature is around 15 Celsius degree.

c)

It has an individual current system.

d)

It has a separate basin.

2.

Choose the mean salt content of sea water.

a)

1%

b)

3,5%

c)

2%

d)

5%

3.

Choose what proportion of the surface of the Earth is covered by water.

a)

52%

b)

69%

c)

71%

d)

85%

4.

Choose the smallest ocean.

a)

Arctic Ocean

b)

Indian Ocean

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Pacific Ocean

5.

Choose the Mediterranean Sea.

a)

b)

c)

d)

6.

Choose the inland sea.

a)

Black Sea

b)

Gulf of Mexico

c)

North Sea

d)

Bering Sea

7.

Choose two factors that create tidal movement of seawater.

a)

Gravitation of Moon

b)

Revolution of Moon

c)

Rotation of Earth

d)

Rotation of Sun

8.

Where is the difference in tidal movement larger: on inland seas or on peripherical seas?

a)

There is no difference

b)

On Neverland Seas

c)

On inland seas

d)

On peripherical seas

9.

Choose what causes waves.

a)

Global warming

b)

Glacial periods

c)

Pressure differences

d)

Differences in sea water temperature

10.

How many times do you have low tide at one coastal location in one day?

a)

Once

b)

Twice

c)

Three times

d)

Four times

11.

What do you call the high tide at the conjunction of Moon and Sun?

a)

storm surge

b)

neap tide

c)

inflation

d)

spring tide

12.

Choose the global wind that drags oceanic currents in the hot zone.

a)

polar winds

b)

westerlies

c)

monsoon winds

d)

trade winds

13.

Choose the temperature of the oceanic current that moves from lower to higher latitudes.

a)

warm

b)

cold

c)

latitude does not count

d)

mean

14.

Choose the oceanic current that drifted the iceberg which sunk Titanic.

a)

Humboldt Current

b)

Canary Current

c)

Kuroshio Current

d)

Golf Current/North Atlantic Current

15.

Name the local difference in temperature that is created by oceanic currents.

a)

isotherm

b)

temperature anomaly

c)

millibar

d)

inverse proportionality

16.

Choose two terms for this definition: Water above the first impermeable layer.

a)

soil moisture

b)

ground water table

c)

karst water

d)

mineral water

e)

confined water

17.

Choose the term for this definition: Water between two impermeable layers.

a)

soil moisture

b)

ground water table

c)

karst water

d)

mineral water

e)

confined water

18.

Choose the term for this definition: Water in the cracks and fissures of limestone.

a)

soil moisture

b)

ground water table

c)

karst water

d)

mineral water

e)

confined water

19.

Choose the term for this definition: Water containing a high proportion of mineral salts.

a)

soil moisture

b)

ground water table

c)

karst water

d)

mineral water

20.

Choose the term for this definition: Water on the first impermeable layer.

a)

soil moisture

b)

ground water table

c)

karst water

d)

mineral water

e)

confined water

21.

Choose the term for this number in the picture: 2

a)

soil moisture

b)

water table well

c)

artesian well

d)

impermeable layer

e)

aquifer

22.

Choose the term for this number in the picture: 3

a)

soil moisture

b)

water table well

c)

artesian well

d)

impermeable layer

23.

Choose two terms for this number in the picture: 5

a)

soil moisture

b)

confined water

c)

artesian well

d)

impermeable layer

e)

aquifer

24.

Choose the term for this number in the picture: 8

a)

soil moisture

b)

water table well

c)

artesian well

d)

impermeable layer

e)

aquifer

25.

Choose the term for this number in the picture: 9

a)

soil moisture

b)

water table well

c)

artesian well

d)

impermeable layer

e)

aquifer

26.

This type of water has a higher temperature than the mean annual temperature of the area it comes from.

(a)  

27.

This type of rock does not let water through.

(a)  

28.

This type of a well brings up confined water of sedimentary basins (e.g. Paris Basin, Carpathian Basin).

(a)  

29.

Temperature growth with depth, its value is 3 Celsius degree/100 meters.

(a)  

30.

This type of movement of the sea water is generated by the global winds.

(a)  

31.

This type of movement of the sea water is generated by the pressure difference.

(a)  

32.

This type of a sea is separated from the ocean by a strait.

(a)  

33.

This is the second largest ocean of our planet.

(a)  

34.

Choose a term for this defintion: The amount of water in m3 flowing through the crossection of a river in a second.

a)

water regime

b)

tributary

c)

delta

d)

water discharge

35.

Choose a term for this defintion: The boundary that marks the area drained by a river.

a)

water regime

b)

watershed

c)

delta

d)

catchment area

36.

Choose a term for this defintion: A type of estuary where the river deposits material and separates into narrow channels at the sea.

a)

water level

b)

levee

c)

delta

d)

catchment area

37.

Choose a term for this defintion: The way how the water level of a river changes through a year.

a)

water level

b)

water regime

c)

water discharge

d)

tributary

38.

Choose a term for this defintion: Side river of a main river.

a)

catchment area

b)

watershed

c)

water discharge

d)

tributary

39.

Choose the picture of a meander.

a)

b)

c)

d)

40.

Choose two pictures for a middle course river.

a)

b)

c)

d)

41.

Choose one pictures for a rapid

a)

b)

c)

d)

42.

Choose the picture for a canyon.

a)

b)

c)

d)

43.

Choose the picture for a gorge.

a)

b)

c)

d)

44.

Choose the picture for an island.

a)

b)

c)

d)

45.

Choose the picture for the pair of a river cliff and and a slip-off slope.

a)

b)

c)

d)

46.

Choose two pictures for estuary (a delta and a funnel shaped).

a)

b)

c)

d)

47.

This lake forms as plate movements shrink oceans.

a)

tarn lake

b)

ice sheet carved lake

c)

remnant lake

d)

moraine lake

48.

This lake forms when a glacier pushes frontal rock debris into a dam.

a)

tarn lake

b)

ice sheet carved lake

c)

remnant lake

d)

moraine lake

49.

This type of a lake formed in the ice age on plains in North America and Europe.

a)

doline lake

b)

ice sheet carved lake

c)

remnant lake

d)

moraine lake

50.

This type of a lake formed in summit regions of mountains in circular, ice collecting basins.

a)

tarn lake

b)

ice sheet carved lake

c)

remnant lake

d)

moraine lake

51.

This type of a lake formed out of a meander.

a)

ox-bow lake

b)

artificial

c)

wind blown lake

d)

doline lake

52.

This type of a lake formed by karstic process on limestone surface.

a)

ox-bow lake

b)

artificial

c)

wind blown lake

d)

doline lake

53.

This type of a lake formed in a graben that sunk as plates moved.

a)

moraine lake

b)

mine lake

c)

trench lake

d)

doline lake

54.

This is Lake Szelidi.

a)

b)

c)

d)

55.

This is Lake Saint Anna (Sfanta Ana).

a)

b)

c)

d)

56.

This is Lake Garda.

a)

b)

c)

d)

57.

This is Lake Balaton.

a)

b)

c)

d)

58.

This is a moraine lake.

a)

b)

c)

d)

59.

This is a trench lake.

a)

b)

c)

d)

60.

This is an ox-bow lake.

a)

b)

c)

d)

61.

This is a volcanic crater lake.

a)

b)

c)

d)

62.

This is Lake Michigan.

a)

b)

c)

d)

63.

This is Lake Lupa.

a)

b)

c)

d)

64.

This is Lake Tanganyika.

a)

b)

c)

d)

65.

This is Lake Tisza.

a)

b)

c)

d)

66.

These two lakes are artificial lakes.

a)

b)

c)

d)

67.

This is an other trench lake.

a)

b)

c)

d)

68.

The basin of this lake was carved out by an icesheet in the ice age.

a)

b)

c)

d)