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Ch. 10 Final Exam Quiz - Earth Science
Ch. 10 Final Exam Quiz - Earth Science
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A #science #quiz for your #final #exam
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What percent of Earth's water is saltwater?
5%
97%
3%
Less than 1%
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What are wetlands?
Land consisting of trees
Lots of grassy plains
Forested land
Land consisting of marshes or swamps
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What is a barrier constructed to hold back water & raise it's level?
Reservoir
Dam
Well
Watershed
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What is a tributary?
I don't know boi
Smaller streams & rivers that feed into a main river
The explosion
Land area that supplies water to a river system
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What is the most abundant salt in the ocean?
Hydrocarbon acid
Sodium chloride
Sodium dioxide
Salt
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What percent of freshwater is ice?
69%
22%
12%
76%
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What percent of the Earth's water is freshwater?
Less than 1%
5%
3%
97%
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What is El Ñino?
Moves large amount of water to S. American coast
All of the above
Occurs every 2-7 years
Unusual wind patterns that occur in the west Pacific
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How can we obtain groundwater?
By pumping it from the sea
I don't know boi
By pumping it up a dam in a lake
By drilling through water table/pumping it up through a well
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What is a divide?
Smaller streams that feed into a main river
The ridge of land that separators two watersheds
The Big Bang
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What's a watershed?
A type of well
Who knows?
Land area that supplies water to a river system
A lake that stores water for human use
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True for False - Pressure increases as you descend down the water column
True
False
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What's a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater?
Dam
Aquifer
I don't know boi
Well
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What is a current that can warm/cool water above it & is driven by winds?
Surface Currents
Deep Currents
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What's salinity?
The amount of salt in your pool
Total amount of dissolved salts in the water
Distance b/w wavelength
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What is a lake that stores water for human use built by humans using dams?
Reservoir
Well
Dam
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True or False - tsunamis start w/ earthquakes at the ocean floor
False
True
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What is the three stages of the water cycle?
Big Bang, Explosion, Supernova
Evaportion, Condensation, Precipitation
Precipation, Evaporation, Condensation
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Currents driven by density and temperature gradients are
Surface Currents
Deep Currents
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True or False - a tsunami CANNOT destroy most homes and buildings near the shore
False
True
