Hydrosphere Review

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9th grade hydrosphere earth,environmental science(honors)
Leslie Pedroza
Quiz by Leslie Pedroza, updated more than 1 year ago
Leslie Pedroza
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Question 1

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Wet lands are like sponges because....
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  • it contains many indigenous species
  • they soak up excess water and filter pollutants
  • None of the above

Question 2

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which is MOT LIKELY an example of a point source pollution?
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  • Fertilizer sprayed on to a field
  • water runoff from a city street
  • a pipe flowing into a river

Question 3

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a new golf course is built next to a river. Over the past of several months, the nitrate levels of the water in the river have been increasing \. which best explains the cause of the increasing nitrate levels?
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  • increased growth of algae
  • decreased biodiversity
  • runoff from fertilizer

Question 4

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What is the process of a runoff?
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  • A small amount of precipitation not evaporated returns to stream, rivers and lakes
  • when a small amount of water turns into groundwater
  • a combination of precipitation and evaporation

Question 5

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Deep ocean currents are a result of.....
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  • Global wind patterns
  • Density
  • Earths Rotation
  • All of the above

Question 6

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Which best describes the water found in estuaries?
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  • brackish
  • saltwater
  • freshwater

Question 7

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Eutrophication
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  • the environment around an ocean becomes contaminated
  • When an animal has a high level of pollution inside it
  • When the Ocean is polluted
  • the enrichment of an ecosystem with chemical nutrients

Question 8

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Aquifers store ______ water
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  • ground
  • lake
  • ocean
  • glacier

Question 9

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  • evaporation
  • Condensation
  • Precipitation
  • Runoff

Question 10

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What is a divide?
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  • a natural stream of water of considerable volume
  • a continuous ridge that separates a watershed
  • small rivers or streams that flow into a larger river or stream
  • a body of fresh water found in low lying areas

Question 11

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where does most fresh water exist?
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  • ice caps, lakes, and streams
  • glaciers, rivers, and oceans
  • aquifers, ice caps, and glaciers

Question 12

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The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean?
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  • California Current
  • Surface Current
  • Gyre
  • Global Conveyor Belt

Question 13

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  • Evaporation
  • Condensation
  • Precipitation
  • Runoff

Question 14

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An area of land that bodies of water drain to
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  • mouth
  • point-source material
  • watershed
  • headwaters

Question 15

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Which of the following is not a permeable surface?
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  • Soil
  • sand
  • pavement
  • moss

Question 16

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What process is evaporation from plants and trees?
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  • Evaporation
  • Condensation
  • precipitation
  • transpiration

Question 17

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What is the energy source that powers the water cycle?
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  • Gravity
  • running water
  • internal heat of the earth
  • sun

Question 18

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Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
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  • aquifers
  • groundwater
  • condensation
  • ocean

Question 19

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How many river basins are in North Carolina?
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  • 17
  • 19
  • 11
  • 21

Question 20

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Why are surface currents at the surface of the ocean?
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  • colder temperature
  • colder temperature and more salty
  • warmer temperature and less salinity
  • less salinity

Question 21

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The ability of a material to transmit water through interconnected pores is called
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  • capacity
  • competence
  • permeability
  • porosity

Question 22

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Warm ocean currents generally come from
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  • the north pole
  • the south pole
  • the equator
  • both a and b

Question 23

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As you go deeper in the ocean, the water is colder and less salty.
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  • True
  • False

Question 24

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Where is most of Earth's freshwater located?
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  • oceans
  • rivers
  • Lakes
  • Frozen in glaciers

Question 25

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Which of the following statements is NOT part of the water cycle.
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  • water falls as precipitation back to Earth
  • water evaporates from bodies of water on Earth
  • water soaks into the ground
  • water dissolves minerals from rocks it flows over

Question 26

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Which describes an estuary?
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  • A large body of fresh water.
  • A large body of salt water.
  • The wide, lower course of a river where fresh and salt water mix.

Question 27

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The highest point of a wave is?
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  • crest
  • trough
  • point of origin
  • compression point

Question 28

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  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • Precipitation
  • runoff

Question 29

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what is point-source solution?
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  • pollution coming from a specific one site
  • unsure of the places the pollution is coming from
  • Oil spills in to the ocean
  • none of the above

Question 30

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The change of water from a liquid to a gas.
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  • evaporation
  • precipitation
  • condensation
  • transpiration

Question 31

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Why are vegetative buffers important?
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  • IDK
  • they control storm water flow
  • deforestation
  • Growth of algae

Question 32

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Ocean currents have an affect on which two things
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  • climate and weather
  • temperature and density
  • land and sea
  • equator and poles

Question 33

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Which human activity can speed up the process of eutrophication?
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  • Building cities
  • Nuclear power plants
  • Deforestation
  • Farming

Question 34

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Surface currents are a result of
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  • global wind patterns
  • Earths rotations
  • Density
  • All of the above

Question 35

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The lowest part of the wave is?
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  • trough
  • crest
  • point of origin
  • compression point

Question 36

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  • evaporation
  • condensation
  • precipitation
  • Runoff
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