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A. 97% is Salty

C. 87% is Salty

B. 85% is Salty

D. 70% is Salty

What Percent of the Earth’s Water is Salty?

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A. 97% is Salty

A. Nothing can live in it

C. You can float in it

B. It is a freshwater sea

D. Goblin sharks live there

What is unique about the Dead Sea?

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C. You can float in it

A. In the polar regions

C. In the temperate zones

B. Near the Eqautor.

D. The southern sea

Where are the warmest oceans found?

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B. Near the Equator

A. 70% of the Fresh Water is in the Glaciers

C. 50% of the Fresh Water is in the Glaciers

B. 20% of the Fresh Water is in the Glaciers

D. 97% of the Fresh Water is in the Glaciers

How Much Fresh Water Do the World’s Glaciers hold

(percentage)?

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A. 70% of the Water is in Glaciers

A. The polar regions

C. Where rivers and oceans meet

B. Shallow, tropical areas

D. Both A and B

What part of the oceans are the saltiest?

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D. Both A and B

A. 5%

C. 10%

B. 20%

D. 1%

What Percentage of Earth’s Fresh Water is in Lake

Superior?

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C. 10%

A. 30,000 feet

C. 27,000 feet

B. 36,000 feet

D. 20,000 leagues

How deep is the Marian Trench?

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B. 36,000 feet

A. Type of clam

C. A seamount with a flat top

B. French coin

D. A seamount above water

What is a Guyot?

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C. A seamount with a flat top

A. Syria and Israel

D. Jordan and Israel

The Dead Sea is located between which two

countries?

C. Lebanon and Israel

B. Iran and Iraq

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D. Jordan and Israel

What type of crust is the continental shelf composed

of?

A. Oceanic crust

C. Abyssal crust D. Trench crust

B. Continental crust

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B. Continental crust

A. Sonar and Satellites

What are two methods used to map the ocean floor?

C. Infrared and sonar

B. Radar and satellites

D. Sonar and radar

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A. Sonar and satellites

B. Subduction

Which geologic process creates trenches?

A. Volcanism

C. Earthquakes D. Erosion

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B. Subduction

C. Deep, flat, completely dark

Which describes the features of an abyssal plain?

A. Deep, lifeless, many guyots B. Deep, many seamounts, dark

D. Deep, very warm, dark

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C. Deep, flat, completely dark

D. 35 degree saltwater

Which water is the densest?

A. 50 degree lakewater

C. 32 degree lakewater

B. 75 degree saltwater

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D. 35 degree saltwater

A. Lake Michigan

What great lake does the Muskegon River drain into?

B. Lake Superior

D. Lake Erie C. Lake Huron

A. Lake Michigan

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