Water Types
What type of water contains a high concentration of salt?
what is saltwater
What is the process called when water flows over land?
What is runoff?
What term describes a layer of rock or sediment that allows wate to pass through?
What is Permeable?
What shellfish is known for helping improve water quality in estuaries?
What are oysters?
How does an estuary support freshwater and saltwater species?
What is by mixing salt and fresh water, becoming brackish. Estuaries provides protection and nutrients for many species.
What do you call water that is a mix of freshwater and saltwater?
What is brackish?
What is the term for the natural storage of water in the ground?
What is an aquifer?
What is the term for a material that does not allow water to pass through?
What is impermeable?
What term describes the practice of caring for our natural resources?
What is stewardship?
Describe the role of precipitation in the water cycle.
What is rain, sleet, snow, hail following from the atmosphere back to the ground.
What is the term for water that falls from the sky?
What is precipitation?
Define the term for a slow-moving body of ice.
What is a glacier?
How do we describe areas where water collects, such as swamps
What are Wetlands?
What is a key component of the water cycle that includes rain, snow, and sleet?
What is precipitation?
How does groundwater become part of the water cycle?
What is the ground water needs to be pumped or withdrawn from a well or spring.
Define the term used to describe the upper surface of groundwater.
What is watertable?
What do we call the path water takes as it moves through the environment?
What is the water cycle?
What is an area of land called that is saturated with water?
What is a swamp?
What do we call the underground layers of water-bearing rock?
What is an Aquifer?
What are water systems crucial for?
What is transportation, agriculture, recreation, drinking water, supports ecosystems, and climate regulation.
What is the term for a large body of saltwater?
What is the ocean?
What is the area of land that drains into a river called?
What is a River Basin?
What is the term for the area where a river meets the ocean?
What is an estuary?
What is the term for the land surrounding a river that can be flooded?
What is a watershed?
What are different types of aquifers?
What are Confined: Bounded by impermeable layers and Unconfined: Has a water table as its upper boundary