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WorksheetsAll questions for the test on Hydrosphere
Total questions: 68
Worksheet time: 25mins
These are characteristics of an ocean. Choose the odd one.
Mean depths is 3900 m.
Mean temperature is around 15 Celsius degree.
It has an individual current system.
It has a separate basin.
Choose the mean salt content of sea water.
1%
3,5%
2%
5%
Choose what proportion of the surface of the Earth is covered by water.
52%
69%
71%
85%
Choose the smallest ocean.
Arctic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Choose the Mediterranean Sea.
Choose the inland sea.
Black Sea
Gulf of Mexico
North Sea
Bering Sea
Choose two factors that create tidal movement of seawater.
Gravitation of Moon
Revolution of Moon
Rotation of Earth
Rotation of Sun
Where is the difference in tidal movement larger: on inland seas or on peripherical seas?
There is no difference
On Neverland Seas
On inland seas
On peripherical seas
Choose what causes waves.
Global warming
Glacial periods
Pressure differences
Differences in sea water temperature
How many times do you have low tide at one coastal location in one day?
Once
Twice
Three times
Four times
What do you call the high tide at the conjunction of Moon and Sun?
storm surge
neap tide
inflation
spring tide
Choose the global wind that drags oceanic currents in the hot zone.
polar winds
westerlies
monsoon winds
trade winds
Choose the temperature of the oceanic current that moves from lower to higher latitudes.
warm
cold
latitude does not count
mean
Choose the oceanic current that drifted the iceberg which sunk Titanic.
Humboldt Current
Canary Current
Kuroshio Current
Golf Current/North Atlantic Current
Name the local difference in temperature that is created by oceanic currents.
isotherm
temperature anomaly
millibar
inverse proportionality
Choose two terms for this definition: Water above the first impermeable layer.
soil moisture
ground water table
karst water
mineral water
confined water
Choose the term for this definition: Water between two impermeable layers.
soil moisture
ground water table
karst water
mineral water
confined water
Choose the term for this definition: Water in the cracks and fissures of limestone.
soil moisture
ground water table
karst water
mineral water
confined water
Choose the term for this definition: Water containing a high proportion of mineral salts.
soil moisture
ground water table
karst water
mineral water
Choose the term for this definition: Water on the first impermeable layer.
soil moisture
ground water table
karst water
mineral water
confined water
Choose the term for this number in the picture: 2
soil moisture
water table well
artesian well
impermeable layer
aquifer
Choose the term for this number in the picture: 3
soil moisture
water table well
artesian well
impermeable layer
Choose two terms for this number in the picture: 5
soil moisture
confined water
artesian well
impermeable layer
aquifer
Choose the term for this number in the picture: 8
soil moisture
water table well
artesian well
impermeable layer
aquifer
Choose the term for this number in the picture: 9
soil moisture
water table well
artesian well
impermeable layer
aquifer
This type of water has a higher temperature than the mean annual temperature of the area it comes from.
(a)
This type of rock does not let water through.
(a)
This type of a well brings up confined water of sedimentary basins (e.g. Paris Basin, Carpathian Basin).
(a)
Temperature growth with depth, its value is 3 Celsius degree/100 meters.
(a)
This type of movement of the sea water is generated by the global winds.
(a)
This type of movement of the sea water is generated by the pressure difference.
(a)
This type of a sea is separated from the ocean by a strait.
(a)
This is the second largest ocean of our planet.
(a)
Choose a term for this defintion: The amount of water in m3 flowing through the crossection of a river in a second.
water regime
tributary
delta
water discharge
Choose a term for this defintion: The boundary that marks the area drained by a river.
water regime
watershed
delta
catchment area
Choose a term for this defintion: A type of estuary where the river deposits material and separates into narrow channels at the sea.
water level
levee
delta
catchment area
Choose a term for this defintion: The way how the water level of a river changes through a year.
water level
water regime
water discharge
tributary
Choose a term for this defintion: Side river of a main river.
catchment area
watershed
water discharge
tributary
Choose the picture of a meander.
Choose two pictures for a middle course river.
Choose one pictures for a rapid
Choose the picture for a canyon.
Choose the picture for a gorge.
Choose the picture for an island.
Choose the picture for the pair of a river cliff and and a slip-off slope.
Choose two pictures for estuary (a delta and a funnel shaped).
This lake forms as plate movements shrink oceans.
tarn lake
ice sheet carved lake
remnant lake
moraine lake
This lake forms when a glacier pushes frontal rock debris into a dam.
tarn lake
ice sheet carved lake
remnant lake
moraine lake
This type of a lake formed in the ice age on plains in North America and Europe.
doline lake
ice sheet carved lake
remnant lake
moraine lake
This type of a lake formed in summit regions of mountains in circular, ice collecting basins.
tarn lake
ice sheet carved lake
remnant lake
moraine lake
This type of a lake formed out of a meander.
ox-bow lake
artificial
wind blown lake
doline lake
This type of a lake formed by karstic process on limestone surface.
ox-bow lake
artificial
wind blown lake
doline lake
This type of a lake formed in a graben that sunk as plates moved.
moraine lake
mine lake
trench lake
doline lake
This is Lake Szelidi.
This is Lake Saint Anna (Sfanta Ana).
This is Lake Garda.
This is Lake Balaton.
This is a moraine lake.
This is a trench lake.
This is an ox-bow lake.
This is a volcanic crater lake.
This is Lake Michigan.
This is Lake Lupa.
This is Lake Tanganyika.
This is Lake Tisza.
These two lakes are artificial lakes.
This is an other trench lake.
The basin of this lake was carved out by an icesheet in the ice age.
