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Water Cycle Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Examples of Freshwater reservoirs | Polar ice caps, glaciers, atmosphere, lakes, rivers, streams, groundwater |
| Non example of a reservoir for the water cycle | swimming pools |
| Factor with the greatest affect on a community's stores of freshwater | average annual rainfall |
| type of precipitation that most often soaks into the ground and refills groundwater | gentle, long lasting rain |
| Most important driver of the water cycle | Sun |
| Fact which most affects how water drains into local watersheds | differences in elevation |
| Role of water cycle | circulates existing water on Earth |
| one way to increase amount of water available for local use | decrease evaporation |
| River system which moves the most freshwater on Earth is | Amazon River |
| Correct order of the process of moving nutrients, salts, sediments and pollutants to the ocean | watersheds to estuaries to oceans |
| what happens when the number of tributaries increase in a watershed? | amount of water flowing through the watershed is increased |
| Fact concerning structure of the watershed | the ocean is connected to many lakes, watersheds and waterways |
| Process that removes the most available water from the local water supply | evaporation |
| all water on Earth eventually flows here | oceans |
| If you breathe on a mirror, part of the mirror clouds up. What are you actually seeing when you see the mirror cloud up? | water droplets that formed from cooled water vapor in your breath |
| What define the boundaries of watersheds? | the way water flows over the land |
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