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Standard S6E3 a. b. and c.
1. What percent of Earth's water is
fresh water (rivers, lakes,
underground, ice-caps, and glaciers)
3%
2. The percent of the Earth Water that is
frozen (ice caps and glaciers)
3. The percent of the Earth’s surface
that is covered by water
4. The percent of Earth’s water that is in
usable liquid form
5. The percent of the Earth’s water that
is salt water
6. Water that collects below Earth’s
surface in aquifers
Water from rain and melted snow
that flows over the land and collects
in bodies of water
7. A layer of permeable rock
underground that collects and stores
water
8. What is source of energy drives the
water cycle?
2%
9. What are the three main processes
that are involved in the water cycle?
10. Where can water be stored or
accumulated?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
11. Define the water cycle.
Movement of water from the surface of the Earth to the Earth’s
atmosphere back to the surface of the Earth again
12. What is evaporation?
Changing from a liquid to water vapor- Sun’s energy
71%
1%
97%
Groundwater
Runoff
Aquifer
Sun
Aquifer- below the surface and in Rivers, streams, lakes, etc. at the
surface
13. What is condensation?
Changing from water to a liquid- clouds form
14. What makes water evaporate?
15. What is precipitation?
16. What are some types of
precipitation?
17. What does it mean to conserve
water?
18. Water that is found underground is
called…
19. Water that ends up in our rivers and
lakes is called…
Sun’s energy
Rain, hail, sleet, or snow that falls to the Earth’s surface from clouds
Rain, hail, sleet, and snow
To save water
Groundwater
Surface water
20. Where is most of our water on earth
found?
21. Draw and label a diagram of the
water cycle.
oceans
22. The deepest part of the Ocean that is
under the most pressure
23. What factors affect the salinity of
ocean water (increase or decrease)?
24. What is the name of the area
Deep ocean Trench
between the shoreline and
continental slope (gradually
sloping end of a continent that
extends out under water)?
25. What is the name of the area
between the continental shelf and
the continental rise (this ocean
floor feature is very steep)?
26. What is the name of the base of
the continental slope (made of
large piles of sediments) - area
located between the continental
slope and the deep ocean basin
(abyssal plain)?
27. What is the name of the broad flat
part of the deep- ocean basin
(covered by mud and the remains
of marine organisms)?
28. What is the name of the volcanic
chain of mountains on the ocean
floor - (forms where oceanic crust
pulls apart - new oceanic forms
here)?
29. What is a submerged
(underwater) volcanic mountain
on the ocean floor called?
30. A huge crack or depression/
canyon in the ocean floor is also
called?
Evaporation, water freezing, rainfall, melting of ice/glacier/snow,
current
Continental shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Abyssal Plain
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Seamounts
Deep ocean trench form at convergent boundaries
31. What are seamounts that extend
up out of the ocean called?
32. Most of the salt in ocean water
is……
33. Create a diagram of the ocean
floor and label the following
feature: continental shelf,
continental slope, abyssal plain,
seamounts, mid-ocean ridge,
Volcanic island, trench and rift
valley
Volcanic Islands
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