Chapter 7 Comprehension and Vocabulary Questions- Scott Foresman Science
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| What would happen if water did not continuously move through the environment? | show 🗑
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| show | The water table is the top level of groundwater in an aquifer.
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| What is the same about the words evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and sublimation? | show 🗑
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| Could precipitation occur before evaporation? | show 🗑
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| show | 75/100, 3/4, or 75 percent
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| show | 3/100
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| show | About 25 percent
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| What would Earth be like if the hydrosphere covered only 25 percent of its surface? | show 🗑
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| How does the temperature of a cold current change as it approaches the equator? | show 🗑
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| How would a mouthful of ocean water taste? | show 🗑
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| show | Southern Florida- It is warmer in southern Florida, so evaporation is faster.
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| Why does cold water sink under warm water in the ocean? | show 🗑
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| What is the measure of how salty water is? | show 🗑
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| What causes some ocean water to have a higher salinity than other ocean water? | show 🗑
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| What does almost all of Earth's fresh water start as? | show 🗑
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| show | Groundwater
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| show | Groundwater
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| show | Layers of rock and soil
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| What is the top level of groundwater in an aquifer called? | show 🗑
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| show | No, it is rarely level because it usually follows the slope of the land, it is higher beneath hills and lower in valleys.
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| What is the layer of rock and soil that groundwater occupies? | show 🗑
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| Does the level of a water table stay the same or change during the year? | show 🗑
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| show | Ocean water has much more dissolved salt. It is not used for drinking, cooking, or cleaning.
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| What is an artificial lake that forms behind a dam? | show 🗑
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| Where is most of Earth's ice found? | show 🗑
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| How much of Earth's fresh water is in ice sheets and glaciers? | show 🗑
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| What is the purpose of chemicals in the water purification process? | show 🗑
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| show | Sand
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| show | Water is treated to kill bacteria and remove pollutants.
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| How could pollutants get into groundwater? | show 🗑
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| What are formed when parts of ice break off from glaciers or ice sheets? | show 🗑
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| Why do cities and towns treat water before it is sent to homes? | show 🗑
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| What is the gas form of water? | show 🗑
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| What are the five steps of the water cycle? | show 🗑
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| show | Sublimation
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| show | Evaporation
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| What is it called when the water vapor turns into liquid, such as water droplets in clouds? | show 🗑
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| show | Precipitation
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| show | Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Ice
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| show | A watershed
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| What forms when water vapor turns into ice crystals? | show 🗑
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| show | During Respiration
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| The energy of what causes most melting, evaporation and sublimation? | show 🗑
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| show | Energy, originally coming from the sun
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| show | Yes, it is heat
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| What warms the air or water in the immediate area? | show 🗑
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| show | The soil
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| show | Thousands
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| Where does evaporation take place? | show 🗑
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| show | Melting, Evaporation, and Sublimation
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| After sunrise, the sun heats the Earth, causing what to evaporate due to the warmer temperatures? | show 🗑
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| What are the forms of precipitation? | show 🗑
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| What factors affect evaporation and condensation? | show 🗑
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| What forms when water vapor changes into tiny water droplets or ice crystals? | show 🗑
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| Water droplets form when moisture collects on what? | show 🗑
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| What brings rain and snow to all parts of the world? | show 🗑
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| show | Lower
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| What affects the forming of clouds? | show 🗑
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| Clouds often form when air moves _____ to the areas of less air pressure. | show 🗑
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| show | Cirrus
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| What clouds grow vertically with air inside them, with their bases as low as 1,000 miles above the ground, but the rising air pushes the tops of the clouds higher than 12,000 miles up? | show 🗑
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| What mid-altitute clouds have their bases between 2,000 miles and 7,000 miles above the ground and look like small, puffy balls? | show 🗑
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| What low-altitute clouds are often seen less than 2,000 miles above the ground that cover the whole sky and appear dark due to blocking sunlight? | show 🗑
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| show | Fog
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| show | Snow
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| Ice crystals will fall as snow if the air _____________ the clouds and ground has a temperature below zero degrees Celsius. | show 🗑
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| show | Zero degrees Celsius
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| show | Sleet
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| show | Freezing rain
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| show | Hailstones
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| show | From the size of a pea to larger than a baseball
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| What happens to snowflakes that fall through the air that is warmer than zero degrees Celsius? | show 🗑
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| Most clouds over North America are made of what? | show 🗑
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| show | One Billion Dollars
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