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What percentage of Earth’s water
is freshwater?
 A. 3%
 B. 50%
 C. 25%
 D. 85%
 A. 3%
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What part of the water cycle requires
direct input of solar energy?
 A. precipitation
 B. condensation
 C. evaporation
 D. infiltration
C. evaporation
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For what is the Ogallala Aquifer a
source?
 A. salt water
 B. freshwater
 C. minerals
 D. magma
B. freshwater
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Why is the sea salty?
 A. erosion from land
 B. sea organisms
 C. rainwater
 D. groundwater
A. Erosion from Earth’s
crust
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Rivers collect water from run off
and what else?
 A. flooding
 B. evaporation
 C. condensation
 D. groundwater
D. Groundwater
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You wade into the ocean. Where can you
stand so you might be able to keep your head
above water?
 A. abyssal plain
 B. midocean ridge
 C. continental shelf
 D. coast
C. Continental shelf
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A community organization forms to protect
the Yuba River Watershed. What is the Yuba
River Watershed?
 A. a dam
 B. Streams that flow into
the Yuba River
 C. a shed on the banks
of the Yuba River
 D. the banks
B. Area of land that features streams
that flow into the Yuba River
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How does the ocean change with
increasing depth?
 A. darker, warmer,
More organisms
 B. doesn’t change in
in a pattern
 C. darker, colder,
 D. darker, warmer,
Higher pressure,
Fewer organisms
Lower pressure,
More organisms
C. It gets darker, colder, pressure
increases and it contains fewer
organisms.
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In what reservoir does water reside
for the longest time?
 A. biosphere
 C. ocean
 B. glaciers
 D. deep groundwater
D. Deep groundwater
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What else is an “ice sheet” known
as?
 A. alpine glacier
 B. continental glacier
 C. frozen lake
 D. polar continent
B. Continental glacier
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Where is most of Earth’s
freshwater?
 A. polar ice caps and
glaciers
 C. groundwater
 B. rivers, lakes,
streams
 D. atmosphere
A. Polar ice caps and
glaciers
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What landform is the build up of sediment
that is deposited as a stream meets the sea?
 A. ox bow lake
 B. delta
 C. moraine
 D. meander
B. Delta
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How do glaciers reshape the Earth’s
surface?
 A. move plate
tectonics
 B. move slowly
 C. Pluck rocks, carry
and deposit them
 D. contain water
C. Pluck rocks out of the ground, carry
them away and deposit them.
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What size sediment can slowly
moving water carry?
 A. large
 B. large and small
 C. none
 D. small
D. small
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Why do you typically find bigger rocks along the
banks of a fast-moving stream and smaller rocks
beside a slower-moving stream?
 A. as it slows, large
sediment is deposited
 B. as it slows, small
sediment is deposited
 C. fast carries large
sediment only
 D. slow carries
dissolved sediment only
A. As a stream slows, it deposits
its larger sediments first
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