Vocabulary
Hydrosphere Parts
River Flow
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Objectives
100
The process in which material is laid down.
What is deposition?
100
The largest part of the hydrosphere.
What are ice sheets and glaciers?
100
Where streamlines do not cross and there is no mixing between layers.
What is laminar flow?
100
The materials carried by a stream.
What is load?
100
Describe a watershed.
The area of land that is drained by a water system.
200
A fan-shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream.
What is a delta?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! The smallest part of the hydrosphere.
What is river water?
200
Where a river moves slowest.
What are headwaters?
200
An area along a river that forms from the sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks.
What is floodplain?
200
Descibe an aquifer.
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
300
The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transport soil and sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
300
The second largest part of the hydrosphere.
What is groundwater?
300
These streams are faster than shallow streams.
What is A deep stream?
300
The path that a stream follows.
What is channel?
300
Identify the location of the water table.
In between the Zone of Aeration and the Zone of Saturation.
400
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans.
What is the water cycle?
400
The second smallest piece of the hydrosphere.
What is water vapor (in the atmosphere)?
400
The fastest part of a stream.
What is the mouth?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
400
Explain how water moves through the water cycle.
Water moves through the water cycle by being evaporated, then condensed into clouds, then precipitated down to Earth again over and over again.
500
A stream that flows into a lake or larger stream.
What is tributary?
500
The third largest part of the hydrosphere.
What are lakes and resevoirs?
500
Where streamlines cross and layers mix.
What is turbulent flow?
500
The boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions.
What is a divide?
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