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What is the water cycle.
The cycle that moves water from Earth to the atmosphere and back again?
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What is a glacier.
Moving mass of ice and snow.
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What is a watershed.
An area of land that drains into a body of water.
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What is salinity.
The measure of salt dissolved in water.
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What is the caddisfly larvae, mayfly larvae, beetle
An organism that can live in only clean water.
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What is evaporation.
The process when water changes from a liquid to a gas.
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What is a valley glacier.
This type of glacier forms in a mountain range.
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What is vegetation, urban developments, geography, or logging.
List two things that affect run-off patterns.
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What is mid-ocean ridge.
This underground chain of mountains forms when oceanic plates diverge.
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What is an algal bloom.
This cab occur when wastes from humans enter a lake or ocean.
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What is the sun.
This drives the energy cycle.
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What are striations.
These marks are formed by glacial erosion.
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What is streamflow.
The amount of water discharged by a watershed.
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What is a breaker.
A wave that hits the shore and breaks apart.
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What are colour, odour, sediments, pH, salts, heavy metals, chemicals, bacteria.
Two variables that can be measured to determine water quality.
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What is salt water.
97% of our water is this type of water.
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What is the Columbia Icefield.
This ice field is the largest of all the ice fields in the Canadian Rockies.
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What is an aquifer.
A system of water flowing through permeable rock.
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What is neap tide and spring tide.
There are two types of tides. Draw and label each on the whiteboard.
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What is drinking water for people, drinking water for livestock, irrigation of crops, recreation (especially for swimming).
Name three things that water quality standards are set for.
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What is water quality.
The characteristics of a water resource that make it suitable or unsuitable for various uses.
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What are moraine, till, esker, and outwash.
Four landforms created by glacial deposition.
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What is point sources and non-point sources.
The two categories of contamination. Give an example for each.
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What is 1) uneven heating of the atmosphere 2) rotation of the Earth 3) the continents
Name the three factors that influence the direction of winds and surface currents.
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What are PCB's.
An example of a restricted toxic chemical that stays in our water systems for many years and can kill organisms.
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