Importance of Water | Water Cycle | River Systems | Ponds & Lakes | Changing Lakes |
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True
Pg. 5 - True or false: Most nails cannot survive for more than a few days without water.
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Water cycle
Pg. 8 & 9- Which process moves water between land, living things, bodies of water, and the atmosphere?
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Streams & small rivers
Pg. 11 - Big main rivers are fed by tributaries which are _______ & ______.
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When water collects in hollows and low-lying areas of land.
Pg. 14 - How do ponds and lakes form?
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Natural processes (eutrophication) & human activity.
Pg. 16 - What two factors cause lakes to disappear?
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habitat
Pg. 5 - What is the place where an animal lives?
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Precipitation
Pg. 8 & 9 - Water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet.
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river system
Pg. 11 - A river and all the streams & small rivers that flow together are called this.
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Shallow water
Small body of water More planes Algae live in ponds
Pg. 14 - Name three characteristics specific to ponds.
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Algae
Pg. 16 - Farm fertilizer could run off into lakes and ponds causing what to grow?
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Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean
Pg. 7 - Name three saltwater sources
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evaporation
Pg. 8 & 9 - The process where surface water changes to gas.
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divide
pgs. 12 & 13 - Name the ridge of land that separates water supply areas.
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Volcanic Lake
Pg. 15 - What kind of lake is formed when lava or mud blocks a river?
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nutrients
Pg. 16 - What is released into the water when organisms die and bacteria breaks down?
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groundwater
Pg. 7 - Name for the water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
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condensation
Pg. 8 & 9 - After evaporation, water vapor clumps around solid particles in the air forming clouds.
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river system
Pg. 12 & 13 - a watershed is the land area that supply water to a __________. . __________.
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Reservoir
Pg. 15 - Which body of water stores water for human consumption or use?
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The process when nutrients build up in a lake.
Pg. 16 - What is eutrophication?
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Frozen into sheets of ice.
Pg. 6 - Most of Earth's fresh water is ______.
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transpiration
Pg. 8 & 9 - The process where water given off through the leaves as water vapor.
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Rocky Mountains
Pg. 12 & 13 - The longest divide in North America lies on this mountain range.
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A river bends and loops at an obstacle.
Pg. 15 - How does an oxbow lake form?
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A meadow replaces the lake.
Pg. 16 - Eutrophication:
1) Algae blocks sunlight. 2) Plants die & pile up at the bottom of a lake. 3) a few plants grow in the mud. 4) _________________________. |