Earth's Water Exam Review

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  1. 3. Is a large, naturally hollowed-out space in or above the ground.
  2. 5. Water that comes from precipitation and runoff that replaces the groundwater removed by a well.
  3. 7. Is a land area that is covered with water for a large part of the year.
  4. 9. Is a deep hole dug or drilled to reach the water table.
  5. 10. A lake is a depression in the land that collects and holds water.
  6. 15. Region of the shoreline that is located between the low tide and high tides.
  7. 16. Is the process by which a lake becomes overly rich in the nutrients that washed in from the surrounding watershed.
  8. 18. Is a measure of its concentration of dissolved salts.
  9. 20. Is a wetland that supports trees, shrubs, or other woody plants.
  10. 22. Occurs when too many fish or other marine animals are harvested.
  11. 26. Includes all of the water in the ocean and the marine organisms that live above the ocean floor.
  12. 28. Is the study of Earth’s oceans.
  13. 29. Is a natural or human-made lake used to store water.
  14. 30. Include all of the water that covers the sea floor except for the continental shelf.
  15. 31. is a hot spring that shoots steam and water vapor into the air at regular intervals.
Down
  1. 1. Tends to have more water than swap, and it has few or no trees.
  2. 2. Which is a graph of the ocean temperatures at different depths.
  3. 4. Is the ocean floor and all the organisms that live on or in it.
  4. 6. A well that is dug into a deep aquifer.
  5. 8. Extends from the edge of the continental shelf to the abyssal plain.
  6. 11. Is a spring that produces water with temperatures higher than that of the human body.
  7. 12. is the application of water by humans to land to assist in the production of crops.
  8. 13. Forms when the oxygen levels in the water becomes so low that the water can no longer support significant populations of living things.
  9. 14. A round depression where water collects.
  10. 17. Water that collects underground.
  11. 19. Is a large mass of floating ice.
  12. 21. Is the percentage of pore space in a material.
  13. 23. Is a natural opening in the ground through which groundwater flows to Earth’s surface
  14. 24. Is the continual movement of water between Earth and the atmosphere.
  15. 25. Is a vest body of salt water.
  16. 27. Is an area of soaked, spongy soil that may not be covered in standing water.