Earth's Waters

The large, circular surface-current pattern found in each ocean.

• California Current

• Surface Current

• Gyre

• Global Conveyor Belt

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The Mariana __________ is the deepest known place on Earth

• Volcano

• Seamount

• Ridge

• Trench

Scientists use ______ to determine the oceans depth.

• Submarines

• Sonar

• Helicopters

• Radiowaves

The gradually sloping part of a continent that extends under the ocean is the...

• continental slope

• continental shelf

• abyssal plain

• trench

What do you call an underwater mountain?

• trench

• abyssal plain

• seamount

• volcanic island

What is an aquifer?

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.

• confining layer

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

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What is an artesian well?

• an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water with layers of impermeable material are both above and below.

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

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What do you call the land that water flows across, under, and through on its way to a body of water?

• Tributary

• River system

• Headwaters

• Watershed

All bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above ground

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Runoff

• Swimming pool

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What do we call water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking in?

• runoff

• discharge

• recharge

• tributary

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