Hydrosphere
This drives the water cycle.
What is the sun?
The beginning of a river.
What are headwaters?
An area of land covered with water for a least part of the year.
What is a wetland?
The type of pollution located a specific place.
What is point source pollution?
The upper surface of groundwater.
What is the water table?
The unending circulation of Earth's water supply.
What is the water cycle?
The flat area next to a river that is prone to flooding.
The wetland that was once a marsh but filled in with trees and shrubs.
What is a swamp?
Runoff is an example of this type of water pollution.
What is non-point source pollution?
Groundwater can be found in this zone.
What is the zone of saturation?
This is where the vast majority of freshwater is found on Earth.
What are glaciers/icecaps?
A bend or curve in a stream/river.
What is a meander?
The wetland that can support unusual plants such as the venus flytrap and pitcher plants.
What is a bog/mountain fen?
These type of species can live in polluted water.
What are pollution tolerant species?
Floods occur for this reason.
What is the overflow of water over a stream's bank?
Water flowing down a slope along Earth's surface because it cannot go into the ground.
What is a runoff?
What is a delta?
The wetland that forms along the mouths of streams.
What is a marsh?
This action is the solution to pollution.
What is dilution?
The ability to let water pass through.
What is permeability?
An area of land where all of the water that falls in it and drains off of it goes to a common waterway.
What is a watershed?
The area in a river where water is most polluted.
What is the mouth?
The three reasons that wetlands are important.
What is (1) filter for pollutants and bacteria, (2) habitats for migratory birds, and (3) prevent flooding.
This is the number one cause of water pollution.
What is agricultural activities?
Floods are related to groundwater for this reason.
What is higher groundwater levels means it is more likely to flood?