1) What is the name of a crescent shaped water body formed when the bend of a river is cut off from the main river by forces of erosion?
Oxbow Lake
2) What is the term for a tributary that runs parallel to the main river before eventually joining it?
Yazoo
3) Water bodies that have excessive nutrients are called ‘Eutrophic’. What term describes nutrient deficient water bodies?
Oligotrophic
4) What is the name given to the thin layer in a large water body like ocean or lake, where the temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or below?
Thermocline
5) Name the Greek historian who coined the term ‘Delta’ for the landform created at the mouth of a river because of it’s resemblance to the uppercase Greek letter Delta.
Herodotus
6) An estuary is a water body that forms a transition between a river environment and an ocean environment. Name the largest estuary in the world.
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
7) Over the edge of which mountain in Venezuela does the world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls, drop?
Auyantepui
8) What term describes a watershed from which there is no outflow of water?
Endorheic Basin
9) What is the legendary water spirit of German mythology that assumes human form but constantly shifts shapes?
Nix
10) Named after a pioneering Norwegian oceanographer what unit is used to measure the volume of water transported by ocean currents?
Sverdrup after Harald Sverdrup
Oxbow Lake
2) What is the term for a tributary that runs parallel to the main river before eventually joining it?
Yazoo
3) Water bodies that have excessive nutrients are called ‘Eutrophic’. What term describes nutrient deficient water bodies?
Oligotrophic
4) What is the name given to the thin layer in a large water body like ocean or lake, where the temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or below?
Thermocline
5) Name the Greek historian who coined the term ‘Delta’ for the landform created at the mouth of a river because of it’s resemblance to the uppercase Greek letter Delta.
Herodotus
6) An estuary is a water body that forms a transition between a river environment and an ocean environment. Name the largest estuary in the world.
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
7) Over the edge of which mountain in Venezuela does the world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls, drop?
Auyantepui
8) What term describes a watershed from which there is no outflow of water?
Endorheic Basin
9) What is the legendary water spirit of German mythology that assumes human form but constantly shifts shapes?
Nix
10) Named after a pioneering Norwegian oceanographer what unit is used to measure the volume of water transported by ocean currents?
Sverdrup after Harald Sverdrup
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