GEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY
Group 605
Quiz #3 – Topics 6 & 7

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SECTION 1: Circle the correct option according to each of the following statements. (70 points)

1. It’s the layer of the Earth’s structure that concentrates all the water on the planet and covers approximately 70% of its surface. a) Lithosphere c) Stratosphere b) Hydrosphere d) Subterranean water

2. This component of the hydrosphere concentrates 97% of the planet’s water, however it has high concentrations of salt. a) Glaciers c) Atmosphere b) Subterranean waters d) Seas and oceans

3. It’s the component of the hydrosphere, which at 72 %, concentrates the majority of the world’s fresh water. However, it’s frozen. a) Glaciers c) Atmosphere b) Subterranean waters d) Seas and oceans

4. This is one of the chemical properties of water a) Colorless c) Neutral pH b) Tasteless d) Lacks smell

5. What are the 3 physical states in which water can be found? (Multiple answers) a) Solid c) Liquid b) Gas d) Plasma

6. The kind of sea that is mostly surrounded by continental land, such as the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. a) Gulfs b) Interior sea c) Exterior sea d) Lakes

7. These are large intrusions of sea into continental lands a) Gulfs b) Interior sea c) Exterior sea d) Lakes 8. These kind of movements of seawater are undulations on its surface that area caused by the wind and there are two kinds: oscillation and translation a) Tides c) Oceanic streams b) Tsunamis d) Waves

10. These are periodical movements of seawater in which the ascends (high) or descends (low) and that are caused by conjoined action of gravitational pulls of the Sun, Moon and Earth.
a) Tides c) Oceanic streams b) Tsunamis d) Waves

11. These are large horizontal fluxes of seawater that move