Water Water Everywhere
This kind of water makes up the oceans and seas.
What is salt water?
The place where a river begins, usually in the mountains.
What is the source?
This watershed flows into the Cantabrian Sea and has short, stable rivers with high discharge.
What is the Cantabrian watershed?
Spain’s longest river, flowing through Toledo and Lisbon.
What is the Tajo River?
One reason the hydrosphere is important for all life.
- What is living organisms need hydrosphere to live?
- What is Many animals and plants live in aquatic ecosystems?
- What is We use it to make products, transport…?
- What is Helps maintain the temperature of the Earth?
The study of rivers and other bodies of water.
What is hydrography?
The path a river takes between its source and mouth.
What is the course?
Rivers from this watershed flow west into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Atlantic watershed?
A river in the north that flows into the Atlantic near Portugal.
What is the Miño River?
What are Source, Course, and Mouth?
The total amount of water passing through a river.
What is discharge?
The point where a river ends, often in a sea or ocean.
What is the mouth?
The Ebro River belongs to this watershed.
What is the Mediterranean watershed?
This river passes through Zaragoza and empties into the Mediterranean.
What is the Ebro River?
These bodies of water are home to many plants and animals.
What are aquatic ecosystems?
Underground layers that store fresh water.
What are aquifers?
The distance between the source and the mouth of a river.
What is the length?
The rivers Miño, Sil, Duero, and Tajo belong to this watershed.
What is the Atlantic watershed?
The main river of western Spain that crosses into Portugal before reaching the Atlantic.
What is the Duero River?
Rivers help people move goods and travel. This is one use of the hydrosphere.
What is transportation?
The name for all the water on Earth — oceans, rivers, lakes, and underground.
What is the hydrosphere?
The annual pattern of its discharge (volume of water) and how it changes over time
What is a Regime?
This watershed in southeast Spain has short rivers and low discharge.
What is the Mediterranean watershed?
This southern river crosses Seville before flowing into the Atlantic.
What is the Guadalquivir River?
The hydrosphere helps keep Earth’s temperature balanced. This is called maintaining what?
What is thermal equilibrium or temperature balance?