Fresh & Salt Water Systems

Question 0

What percentage is Salt Water? Where is it found?

Answer 0

97%
Oceans
Seas
Waves
Tides

Question 1

What percentage of Water is Fresh? Where is it?

Answer 1

3%

Lakes and Ponds, Running Water

Question 2

Where is Frozen Water?

Answer 2

Ice Caps

Glaciers

Question 3

What is Potable Water?

Answer 3

Fresh water

Question 4

What is Salinity?

Answer 4

Salt Content

Question 5

How can you purify Water?

Answer 5

Distillation, Evaporation. Filtration. Reverse Osmosis

Question 6

What are forms of pollution in Water Systems?

Answer 6

Agriculture, Fertilizer, Pesticides, Turbidity
Forestry
Water treatmetnt, Septic tanks
Ground Water, Aquifer
Surface Water, OIl Spills

Question 7

From the Continental drift theory, what are on the ocean bottoms along Tectonic Plates?

Answer 7

Trenches

Ridges

Question 8

What are evident from retreating Glaciers?

Answer 8

Eskers, Kettle Lakes, Moraines, Erratic, Drumlins

Question 9

What are Eskers?

Answer 9

A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, winding, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier

Question 10

What is a Kettle Lake?

Answer 10

Isolated body of water left form melted glaciers

Question 11

Dumlins

Answer 11

Teardrop shped hills left from glaciers

Question 12

What is an Eratic?

Answer 12

Piece of Rock which was carried by a glacier. eg, Big Rock , Okotoks