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EARTH SCIENCE FINAL REVIEW: HYDROSPHEREExplain the water cycle using the following terms: transpiration, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and infiltration.What percent of all water on Earth is salt water? Freshwater? Where is most of the freshwater on Earth found?Label the following on the picture below: water table, zone of saturation, zone of aeration, well?What process causes the water table to be replenished after a period of drought or heavy use?Explain the difference between a confined and unconfined aquifer. Which would you prefer to have your drinking water come from?What is an aquaclude?How does the size of sediments affect porosity and permeability?List and explain three negative effects of heavy use of wells.What are the three types of stream load? Which will settle out first? Last?What is the difference between an alluvial fan and a delta?How does the speed of a river change as it approaches the mouth?What is the name of the river system that affects most of Harnett County?Explain why water requires a longer time to heat and cool down than pare and contrast surface and deep water pare and contrast point and nonpoint source pollution.What is eutrophication, and how does it occur?What is a dead zone? Why are aquatic areas around the world currently experiencing larger dead zones?Explain why the equator does not continue to get hotter and hotter, and the poles get colder and colder.Describe the process of upwelling, and how it contributes to the growth of phytoplankton.List and describe at least three negative effects of water pollution. What is the greatest source of water pollution in North Carolina?What can be done to mitigate (lessen) the effects of water pollution? ................
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