Hydrological Cycle
What is the term for water stored under the ground?
Groundwater
What is the place where a river begins called?
Source
What letter shape do deep river valleys in the mountains usually have?
V-shape
A property of a material or rock layer that does not allow fluid to pass through it.
Impermeable
What is the process where water changes from liquid to gas (water vapour) due to the sun's heat.
Evaporation
What is the place where a river flows into the sea or an ocean called?
Mouth
What are the wide, S-shaped curves of a river in flat land called?
Meanders
What is an area of land, ridge, or line that separates two different drainage basins.
Watershed
What is the process when water vapour cools down and turns back into liquid clouds?
Condensation
What do you call a smaller river that flows into a larger river?
Tributary
What is the flat area of land next to a river that gets covered in water during floods called?
Flood plain
What do we call something that is full of tiny holes, allowing fluids or water to pass through easily?
Porous
What is the general English word for rain, snow, hail, or sleet?
Precipitation
What is the word for the place where two rivers meet and join?
Confluence
What is a very steep, vertical, or overhanging face of rock, especially on a coast?
Cliff
What is the term for a material that does not allow fluid, liquid, or water to pass through?
Impermeable
What do we call the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves.
Transpiration
The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.
Estuary
What is a large, big rock that has been smoothed and rounded by water or weather?
Boulder
What is a soft, fine-grained sedimentary rock formed from mud or clay that splits easily into thin layers?
Shale