The Water Cycle
River Systems
Groundwater
Conservation
Miscellaneous
100
Water that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
100
Streams and small rivers that feed into a main river are called ______
What is tributaries?
100
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers is ________
What is groundwater?
100

Cleaning up litter on the beach is a good way to practice...

What is stewardship

100
A ___________ is a small, typically man made body of water
What is a pond?
200
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
What is the water cycle
200

The smaller portion of land that drains water to a river system is a ______

What is a watershed?

200
Materials that allow water to pass through them easily are called ____
What is permeable?
200
Reusing water in a factory is a way to __________ _________
What is conserve water?
200

The amount of salt found in the water is called __

salinity

300
The process that produces rain
What is condensation?
300

A large portion of land that drains surrounding creeks and streams to a larger body of water.

What is a river basin?

300
An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water
What is an aquifer?
300

How many river basins are in North Carolina?

17

300

Why does ice float?

water expands when it freezes, making ice less dense than water

400
The percentage of Earth's water that is fresh
What is 3%?
400

Streams, rivers, and lakes are examples of...

Surface water

400

2/3 of freshwater on Earth is "locked away" in what water source location?

What is ice caps and glaciers?

400

A lake that stores water for human use

What is a reservoir?

500
The cooling of water vapor leads first to this product of the water cycle
What is cloud formation?
500
As water moves slowly through a wetland, some waste materials settle out, some wastes are absorbed by plants, and silt and mud are trapped by plant roots. In this way, wetlands act as
What is a filter?
500

Yellowstone National Park contains these because of the molten magma that warms the water.

Hot springs and geysers

500

What causes tributaries to flow downward toward a main river?

gravity

500

What does the water table separate?

saturated zone and unsaturated zone

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