Fall EVS Midterm Part A

Sodium chloride (NaCl) is the most abundant salt in ocean water.

What forms after section of rock forces groundwater to emerge onto the surface of the earth?

What percent of the Earth is fresh water?

Name two types of waves that are produced by an earthquake.

Which sea turtle is the most common to visit NC shores?

It is safe to swim in food waters?

Which is the most common contamination source for freshwater resources?

All of the following are examples of permeable surfaces except...

Aquifers are important because they prevent flooding.

Which of the following processes help maintain the salinity of the Earth's oceans?

The earth's core is made up of...

Name the warm ocean current off the coast of North Carolina.

Where is the most freshwater on earth found?

People should build homes on a barrier island because of the coquina rock.

Sand is the soil type with the highest water holding capacity.

In the ocean temperature decreases with depth.

Which soil type allows the most infiltration?

The crust is a thin rocky outer layer of the core?

Where is our main water supply stored?

The scientist that hypothesized continental drift?

What is a major source of evaporation?

Process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere?

Soft, weak, rock with some melting.

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Name one evidence for continental drift.

An estuary is also known as a nursery for juvenile fishes.

Name 3 types of volcanoes.

Our earth is over 70% water?

What are the 3 major zones that make up the earth's interior?

Which type of soil allows for the least amount of infiltration?