Water Cycle
The unending circulation of Earth’s water supply.
What is the water or hydrologic cycle?
Give me 2 examples of collection.
What is oceans, rivers, streams, lakes or puddles.
Groundwater is found underground in the zone of
What is the zone of saturation?
The land that separates and drains into rivers.
What is a watershed?
The type of rock that underlies the karst aquifer.
What is limestone?
The process by which precipitation that has fallen on land trickles into the ground and through the rocks to become groundwater is known as these 2 descriptive words.
What is infiltration and percolation?
A blocked-off meander eventually becomes this.
What is an oxbow lake?
Permeable rock layers or sediments that transmit groundwater freely.
What is an aquifer?
The higher land that separates watersheds, all draining into rivers.
What is a divide?
The power behind the water cycle.
What is the sun?
Plants release water into the atmosphere during what process.
What is transpiration or evapotranspiration?
The area where water from the surface can move through permeable rock to reach an aquifer is called this.
What is a recharge zone?
The word that describes how water flows through materials.
What is permeability?
A curve in a river.
What is a meander?
When an aquifer returns the surface and keeps a constant temperature of 720-740F.
What is a spring?
When water changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
Eutrophication when an algae bloom happens causes this.
What is a loss of oxygen, death and decay?
The percentage of total volume of rock or sediment that consists of pore spaces to hold water.
What is porosity?
The 3 ways that describe a streams carrying capacity or how it transports sediments.
What is bedload, suspension and solution?
Name 3 steps in the water cycle that can properly follow condensation and lead back to condensation.
What is precipitation, collection and evaporation?
When water vapor changes to a liquid.
What is condensation?
The depositional feature that forms where a stream enters a lake or ocean is a(n)___.
What is a delta?
The Floridan Aquifer is this kind of aquifer. Spell it correctly.
What is K-A-R-S-T?
An area formed by the greater velocity of water eroding a bank, creating a meander.
What is a cutbank?
Smaller rivers or stream that run into larger rivers are called this.
What is a tributary?