Water Cycle
Streams/Rivers
Wells/Springs
Vocabulary
Misc
100
The ultimate source of fresh water on Earth.
What is the ocean?
100
Where water moves most rapidly in the curve of a stream.
What is on the outside of the curve?
100
The difference between an aquifer and an aquiclude.
What is an aquifer is permeable to water (allows water through it) whereas an aquiclude is impermeable (water cannot pass through it)?
100
Floodplain
What is the area next to a river that is under water when the river floods?
100
The three ways a stream carries its load.
What is suspension, solution, and bed load?
200
The way water gets into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
200
The definition of river discharge.
What is the amount of water that passes a certain point in a given amount of time?
200
The definition of a geyser.
What is a hot spring that erupts at regular intervals?
200
Water Table
What is the interface between the zone of aeration and the zone of saturation?
200
Two human activities that speed up eutrophication of a lake.
What is run off from fertilizer or cities, leaking septic tanks/landfills/sewers, etc?
300
The way evaporation turns salt water into fresh water.
What is the salt is left behind in the ocean?
300
The order in which pebbles, sand, and silt will fall out of suspension.
What is pebbles first, then sand, then silt.
300
The difference between a warm spring and a hot spring.
What is a warm spring is warmer than the average annual temperature of the region and a hot spring is warmer than the human body?
300
Divide
What is an elevated ridge or region of land that separates two watersheds?
300
The source of groundwater.
What is precipitation or runoff?
400
Evaporation from plants.
What is transpiration?
400
The discharge of a river that is 10 m wide, 10 m deep, and has a velocity of 5 m/s.
What is 500 m3/s?
400
The depth a well has to be dug to reach water.
What is below the water table, in the zone of saturation?
400
Watershed
What is the land area that drains to a certain river?
400
The way watersheds are related to divides.
What is divides separate watersheds?
500
The way clouds form.
What is water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into small droplets of water? (Condensation)
500
The way a meander become more accentuated. (bigger & wider)
What is sediment is eroded away from the outside of the curve and deposited on the inside of the curve?
500
The temperature of a spring's water (usually).
What is the average annual temperature of the region?
500
Oxbow Lake
What is a lake formed when a meander gets so accentuated that it cuts off one of its loops?
500
The difference between permeability and porosity.
What is permeability is how easily something allows water through it whereas porosity is the amount of pore space in a substance?
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