The Earth´s Fresh Water -- Revision test

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    Čím je vyšší propustnost, tím rychleji může tekutina procházet horninou.

   The higher the permeability, the faster a liquid can pass through the material.

   

   Přehřátá voda se mění na páru, která žene vodu spočívající na ní ven otvory v hornině.

   The superheated water changes to steam which forces the water resting on it out through
   openings in the rock above.

   

   V pouštní oblast dochází k odpařování brzy po té, co se přežene bouřka.

   In a desert area, evaporation from the soil occurs soon after the storm passes.

   

   Odhaduje se, že Velká jezera obsahují dohromady téměř dvakrát více vody než je jí v atmosféře.
   It is estimated that together the Great Lakes contain almost twice as much as all the water
   contained in the earth's atmosphere.

   

   Domníváme se, že Velká jezera se vytvořila asi pře 250 000 lety.

   The Great Lakes ...are thought to have been formed about 250 000 years ago.

   

   Sumerové zvýšili obsah soli v půdě do takové miry, že se již nedaly pěstovat plodiny.

   Sumerians increased the salt content of the soil to a point where crops could no longer be
   raised.

      Add suitable nouns...

   Permeable rock, layer, sand                                               loose soil, clothes

   Recycling process                                                               irregular
   shape, particles, verbs

   Invisible vapor                                                                     cemented
   particles

   Melting snow, ice                                                                capillary
   action, fringe

   Sheet runoff                                                                         inactive
   volcano

   

   Give synonyms of:

   sink into -- soak into, infiltrate                                           dig out -- scoop
   out,  gouge

   moist -- damp                                                                       cling to -
   adhere

   rapid -- fast, quick                                                                flow into --
   empty into, enter

   

   Underline the words with the same form of both a noun and a verb:

   Estimate, force, fall, contain, evidence, pile, cause, shape, supply, store, depth, hollow,
   dam, flow, divide, empty, moisture

   Say the different forms: contain -- content, evidence -- prove, depth -- deepen, hollow -- h. out,
   empty -- emptiness, moisture - moisten

   

   Give the forms of these verbs:

   Cling -- clung, clung                                                            raise --
   raised, raised

   Sink -- sunk, sunk                                                                 rise -- rose,
   risen

   Soak -- soaked, soaked                                                        flow -- flowed,
   flowed

   feed -- fed, fed                                                                     fly --
   flew, flown