Science 8 Water Systems Test Review
Vocabulary
You must be able to give a definition, match the terms to a definition or fill in blanks.
adaptation
aquifer
aquitard
basin
capillary action
chlorination
condensation
Continental Divide
continental shelf
convection current
current
diversity
dredging
erosion
estuary
evaporation
flocculation
flood plain
fresh water
glacier
ground water
guyot
gyre
habitat
heat capacity
irrigation
percolation
plankton
precipitation
productivity
runoff
salinity
saturated zone
seamount
sediment
system
thermohaline
tide
trench
tributaries
tsunami
turnover
watershed
water table
wavelength
Multiple Choice, True/False or Short Answer Questions
1. Explain four reasons why the water cycle is important.
2. Describe the steps in the water cycle (evaporation and transpiration,
condensation, precipitation, runoff and percolation).
3. Explain why estuaries are very important.
4. Explain how marshes are different from swamps.
5. Explain how water vapour is different from the water from which it evaporated
6. Explain how erosion is controlled during logging (strip or selective logging) and
farming (contour ploughing).
7. Explain why erosion and deposition are opposite geological processes.
8. Describe two ways that people protect homes or towns from flooding.
9. What is one problem with levees?
10. What is freeze-thaw erosion and what human structures are most affected by it?
11. Describe some forms of water in condensation and precipitation.
12. Explain why rain often falls more on one side of a mountain range than the other.
13. Describe two ways that chemicals other than water end up in surface water and
groundwater.
14. How are capillary action and percolation opposites? What causes each?
15. How and why do people make use of groundwater?
16. Explain how differences in temperature and salinity create ocean currents.
17. List three things ocean currents provide for living things.
18. List three factors that change the direction of ocean currents.
19. List some problems and benefits of waves.
20. Why are dams useful?
21. What problems can be caused by dams?
22. Explain similarities and differences in waves and tsunamis.
23. Explain how oxygen becomes dissolved in the ocean.
24. What are turnovers and why are they important in lakes?
25. Explain why there is more diversity in tropical climates such as rain forests.
26. Explain the effects of latitude on climate.
27. Explain the effects on climate of being near a large body of water.
28. Explain the effects of warm ocean currents on climate.
29. Describe differences in ocean habitats (dark zone, light zone, shoreline and reef).
30. Describe adaptations of living things in the light zone, dark zone, shores or reef.
31. Describe three technologies that allow safe exploration of the ocean.
32. Who was Jacques Cousteau and why is he famous?
Science 8 Water Systems Test Review
Diagrams
Label parts of a wave
A) Trough
B) Wavelength
C) Crest
Label a diagram of underground water
(percolation, precipitation, wells, water
table, aquifer or saturated zone, aquitard)
Label parts of a watershed (divides, lakes,
ponds, tributaries, rivers, water table,
precipitation)
Label a diagram of underwater geological features (seamount, guyot, volcanic
island, trench, continental shelf, continental slope, sea canyon, trench)
Science 8 Water Systems Test Review
Graphs
Given climate data, create a climate graph. Compare climate graphs of two cities
to identify the effects of latitude or nearby bodies of water. (Which is probably
farther north? Which is probably on a coast or the interior of a continent?
City A
Jan
Feb
Mar Apr May Jun
Aug Sep
Oct
Nov Dec
-4.8
-5.4
-2.5
1.6
6.2
10.9 15.4 15.5 11.8
6.9
2.6
-2.2
Monthly precipitation (mm) 150
125
131
122
101
102
89
108
131
162
144
149
Feb
Mar Apr May Jun
Jul
Aug Sep
Oct
Nov Dec
0.8
5.2
21
20.3 13.1
7.8
-0.8 -13.5
17
5
13
50
Average Temperature
Jul
City B
Average Temperature
-15.3 -7.2
18
-
61
182
136
250
25
200
20
150
15
100
10
50
5
0
0
-50
-5
-100
-10
-150
-15
-200
-20
J
Precipitation (mm)
95
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
250
25
200
20
150
15
100
10
50
5
0
0
-50
-5
-100
-10
-150
-15
-200
-20
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Mean Temp. (ºC)
Precipitation (mm)
Monthly precipitation (mm)
12.7 15.7
Mean Temp. (ºC)
Jan
60
28