Water Cycle
Rivers
Streams
Water
Miscellaneous
100
This is what occurs when liquid water from the Earth's surface and from living organisms change into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
This type of stream load makes a river look muddy.
What is a suspended load?
100
This is the path a stream follows.
What is a channel?
100
Flood plains eventually become this.
What are rich farming areas?
100
This is an impermeable rock.
What is a rock that tends to stop the flow of water?
200
This is how caves mainly form.
What is by erosion of ground water?
200
This is the largest drainage basin in the US.
What is the Mississippi River Basin?
200
These are smaller streams or rivers that flow into larger ones.
What are tributaries?
200
This happens during primary treatment at a sewage plant.
What is dirty water is passed through a large screen?
200
This depositional feature is found on the coast.
What is a delta?
300
Rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from clouds onto the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
300
At this stage a river would be surrounded by terraces.
What is the rejuvenated stage?
300
More than half of all household water in the US come from this.
What is ground water?
300
This is one example of point source water pollution.
What are wastewater pipes and factory drains?
300
This is another name for a drainage basin.
What is a watershed?
400
This is the water that flows across land and collects in rivers, streams, and eventually the ocean.
What is runoff?
400
At this stage a river erodes its channel wider rather than deeper.
What is a mature stage?
400
These are the materials carried in a stream's water.
What is the load?
400
This is the downward movement of water through pores and other spaces in the soil due to gravity.
What is percolation?
400
This is an aquifer.
What is a rock layer that is porous and permeable?
500
This occurs when water vapor cools and changes into liquid water droplets that form clouds in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
500
This is a river system.
What is the main stream and tributaries of a river?
500
This is when a stream is most likely to deposit the rock and soil that it is carrying.
What is when its current slows?
500
This is the movement of water into the ground due to the pull of gravity.
What is infiltration?
500
Sink holes form this way.
What is when caves formed by ground water collapse?
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