WorksheetsESB Water Unit Pre / Post
Total questions: 91
Worksheet time: 46mins
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1.
What ocean is this? ___________________.
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What ocean is this?___________________.
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3.
What ocean is this?___________________.
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4.
What ocean is this?___________________.
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5.
What ocean is this?___________________.
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6.
What is the study of the Earth's oceans called?
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7.
What percent of the world's water is salty ocean water?
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8.
What percent of the world is covered in oceans?
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9.
What are two tools that oceanographers use to study the ocean?
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10.
The moisture and heat in the ocean drives the ________________.
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11.
What is about 3.5% of seawater? _______________
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12.
Name a gas that is found in seawater. ________________________
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13.
Where in the ocean are temperatures warmest? ________________
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14.
Where in the ocean are temperatures coldest? __________________
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15.
At what temperature does seawater freeze?____________
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16.
How does salt get in the ocean? _______________
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17.
Explain why the oceans don't get saltier and saltier? _____________
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18.
Which is denser (Circle one) Freshwater Saltwater
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19.
Which color can reach deeper in the ocean? (Circle one) Blue Red
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20.
What is the name for the rhythmic movement of ocean water?
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21.
The highest part of a wave is called the ________________.
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22.
The lowest part of a wave is called the _________________.
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23.
Collapsing waves are called ___________________.
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24.
The periodic rise and fall of sea levels is called _________________.
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25.
When the sun makes the tide higher, it's called a ___________ tide.
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26.
When the sun makes the tide lower, it's called a ____________ tide.
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27.
Currents at the top 100-200m of ocean water are called ___________ currents.
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28.
Circular current systems that are caused when ocean currents are deflected by continents are called _______________.
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29.
When ocean water moves slowly upward vertically, it's called a _________________.
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30.
________________ currents are caused by differences in temperature and salinity.
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31.
Wide sandy areas where sediment is deposited on shore are called ____________.
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32.
The process by which waves bend as they reach shallow waters is called _______________
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33.
What are these features called?_______________
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34.
What are these features called? ________________.
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35.
What are these features called? _______________
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36.
This is the name for sandbar that forms on most beaches_______________
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37.
This is formed as water from incoming breakers spills over the longshore bar. _______________
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38.
This is a dangerous stream of water that moves out to sea through a gap in the longshore bar_______________
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39.
This is a term for long strips of sand and sediment that are seperated from the mainland_______________
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40.
What's the name for this man-made coastal feature? _______________
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41.
The area where the edges of continents meet oceans is called the continental ____________.
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42.
The shallowest part of the continental margin is called the continental ____________.
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43.
Area past the continental shelf where the sea-floor drops away quickly to a depth of several kilometers is the continental _______________.
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44.
The area where you'll find a gently sloping accumulation of deposits at the base of the continental slope is called the continental ___________.
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45.
Beyond the continental margin are ocean _______________ which represent about 60% of the Earth's surface.
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46.
The flattest parts of the ocean floor are called ____________ plains.
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47.
The deepest parts of the ocean basins are the deep-sea ____________. (MORE ON BACK)
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48.
The most prominent features of the ocean basins are the mid-ocean ___________, which average 1500m high.
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49.
A hole in the sea-floor through which fluid headed by lava erupts is called a hydrothermal _______________________.
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50.
There are three types of marine ______________, terrigenous, biogenous, and hydrogenous.
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51.
A _____ percentage of Earth's water is in rivers and lakes.
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52.
Water that doesn't sink into the ground when it rains is called ______________.
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53.
Streams and rivers that have a lot of curves are called _____________ streams.
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54.
Streams with many islands of sand and deposits are called ______________ streams.
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55.
Each stream and river empties into a specific area called the ___________ basin.
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56.
An elevated area of land that separates one basin from another is called a _____________.
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57.
An area that separates drainage basins for an entire continent is called a _____________ divide.
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58.
Sediment that is carried by a stream is called stream _______.
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59.
When the land a stream is located on rises slowly, it can cause the water to cut a _______________ in the surface. (MORE ON BACK)
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60.
As a stream empties into a body of water such as a lake, gulf, or bay, the remaining sediment is deposited, forming a ________.
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61.
When a fast-moving mountain stream flows onto a flat plain or valley, a fan-shaped deposit of sediment, called an ______________ fan often forms.
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62.
The volume of water flowing through a stream in a given amount of time is called stream ____________.
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63.
When the river channel cannot hold the increased volume of water discharge, water flows onto the stream's _______________.
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64.
One way to control a flood is to build artificial __________, which are mounds of soil placed on the sides of a stream channel.
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65.
The Great Lakes were formed in part by _________________.
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66.
Lakes can form along ___________, which are surfaces along which rocks break and move.
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67.
Lakes can form in the _______________ of a volcano.
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68.
Human-made lakes often form behind _________.
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69.
Many types of _________________ can be found in lakes.
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70.
Over time, deposited ________________ change the depth of lakes.
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71.
An increase in nutrients and organisms that is a normal part of a lake's life is called ______________.
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72.
The mixing of warm and cold lake water is called _______________.
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73.
_________________is water under the surface of the Earth.
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74.
The volume of pore space divided by the volume of a rock or soil sample is its __________.
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75.
The ability of rock and soil to transmit water and other fluids is called ______________.
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76.
An _______________ is a layer of permeable rock through which water flows freely.
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77.
Aquifers and surface water occur in _______________, which are large regions drained by a particular river system.
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78.
The upper part of an aquifer is called the zone of _____________.
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79.
Below the zone from question 6 is the zone of _______________, where the pores of an aquifer are full of water.
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80.
The top surface of the zone of saturation is the _______________.
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81.
Where the water table meets Earth's surface, water seeps out to form a ________.
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82.
Some communities get water from wells without using pumps. These wells, called __________ wells, are drilled into pressurized aquifers.
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83.
A ___________ is a hot fountain that erupts periodically, shooting water and steam into the air.
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84.
A _________________ source of pollution is a water pollution source that happens in a specific area, such as a spot where chemicals are being directly dumped in the water.
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85.
A __________________ source of water pollution is water pollution over a larger area, such as roadways, agricultural areas, and industrial sites.
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86.
Most of the materials that people throw away end up in __________.
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87.
A ___________________consist of a septic tank and an absorption area.
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88.
In 1980, Congress established a program called __________ to eliminate the worst hazardous-waste sites in the United States.
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89.
________________ is a process that uses living organisms to remove pollutants.
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90.
When water no longer fills the pores in an aquifer, the land above the aquifer sinks. This is called _____________.
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91.
When salt water tends to flow slowly into the lower levels of a coastal aquifer this is called _______________________.
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