Vocabulary
Active River
Streams and Deposits
Water Underground
Using Water Wisely
100
The process by which soil is transported from one location to another.
What is erosion.
100
Rivers are not the only agents of erosion. List 2 more agents of erosion.
What are wind, rain, ice, snow.
100
The process in which material is laid down or dropped.
What is deposition?
100
The upper surface of underground water.
What is the water table?
100
Can help save fish from acid rain.
What is PH balancing?
200
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans.
What is water cycle?
200
The grand canyon was formed by this.
What is erosion?
200
The Nile deposits its sediment this way.
What is a delta?
200
This type of spring occurs when water flows from a crack in the cap rock of an aquifer.
What is atesian spring?
200
Pollution that comes from one specific site.
What is point-source pollution?
300
The materials carried by a stream.
What is the load?
300
The five parts of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensations, precipitation, percolation and runoff?
300
This can help prevent a flood.
What is a dam or levee?
300
This causes underground erosion.
What is dissolving of rock?
400
An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks.
What is a floodplain?
400
A smaller stream that feeds in to a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
400
When a river overflows, sediment is deposited along the river to form this type of area.
What is floodplain?
400
Sharp icicle-shaped features that form on cave ceilings.
What are stalactites?
400
The measure of the concentration of particles suspended in water.
What is turbidity?
500
The ability of a rock or sediemnt to let fluids pass through its open spaces or pores.
What is permeability?
500
This stage of a river is characterized by good drainage, many tributaries, few rapids and falls.
What is a mature river?
500
This type of deposit occurs at the bend of a river.
What is a placer deposit?
500
An area in whichwater travels downward to become part of an aquifer.
What is a recharge zone?
500
Facilities that remove waste materials from water.
What are sewage treatment plants?
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