Chapter 10
Water
Water
Habitat
The place where an organism lives…
Tributary
A stream that feed into a main river is a…
Water enters in the atmosphere by evaporation and leaves by condensation
Water Cycle
The top of the saturated zone
Water table
Volcanic mountain on the ocean floor
Seamount
Groundwater
Water filling the cracks and spaces underground
A watershed
The origin of a river…
Allowing water to pass through or permeate
Permeable
Aquifer
Underground layer of rock that holds water
Deep valley on the ocean floor
Trench
Evaporation
The process by which liquid turns to gas…
Reservoir
A lake created by building a dam…
Few pores or cracks not allowing water to pass
Impermeable
Underground water rising on its own
Artesian well
The edge of the continent
Continental shelf
Transpiration
Water given off by plants…
Divide
Land separating two bodies of water…
Not filled with water
Unsaturated
Amount of dissolved salts in a sample of water
Salinity
Continental slope
A sloping area at the edge of the continent
Precipitation
Water falling to Earth as hail, rain, snow…
Lakes can disappear due to…
Eutrophication
Saturated
Pores and cracks in the ground filled with water
Sonar
Sound waves to calculate the distance of an object
Layers of mud and silt at the bottom of the ocean
Abyssal plain