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what percent of earths water is freshwater? three percent.
what happens when the water between the icebergs freezes? it creates land bridges.
what are aquifers? aquifers are underground reservoirs for fresh water.
what happens when water becomes into its gas state? it becomes evaporation.
what makes up fifty percent of earths oxygen? phytoplamkton
hail, sleet, snow, and rain are examples of what? precipatation
i float on top of the water im big and cold and most of me is under the surface what am i? im an iceberg
runoff where water cannot be absorbed into the soil and overflows or drains into waterways.
desertification happens when the climate gets very dry.
what is changing global patterns of precipitation? climate change it could either rain alot and cause excessive flooding or it can get very dry with no water at all and cause a drought.
what happens to the places with wetter climates? it can cause soil erosion.
natural resources are materials from the enviroment that are used by living things.
respiration organisms obtain energy they need to live through a process.
sonar sound navigation and ranging is a method of determining the depth of the ocean using echoes.
percolation water moves through the ground to the soil.
pH the indicator measures how acidic or basic water is.
turbidity is a measure of how clear water is.
algal blooms rapid growth of algae encouraged by too many nutrients in the water, also cause high turbidity
nitrates are nitrogen compuonds used for growth by plants and algae.
bio-indicators are organisms or parts of organisms that are used to assess ecosystem health
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