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100
This is another name for watershed.
What is drainage basin?
100
This river is 4,180 miles long.
What is the Nile river?
100
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds onto Earth's land and oceans.
What is precipitation?
100
The process by which wind,water,ice,or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
100
Most of Florida's drinking water comes from this.
What is groundwater?
200
This is the largest watershed in the U.S.
What is the Mississippi River watershed?
200
This river, with the same name as one of our fellow classmates, is located in North America.
What is the Mackenzie river?
200
This takes place when water from the oceans and Earth's surface changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream.
What is tributary?
200
Major waterhseds in this country include the Rio Grande and the Columbia River.
What is the United States?
300
The Mississippi watershed has hundreds of these.
What are tributaries?
300
This river flows into the landlocked Caspian Sea.
What is the Volga river?
300
This takes place when water vapor cools and changes into water droplets that form clouds in the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
300
The area of land that is drained by a river system.
What is watershed?
300
This seperates the watersheds that flow into the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico from the ones that flow into the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Continental Divide?
400
The Mississipi watershed covers this much of the U.S.
What is one-third?
400
A disaster that river systems often cause.
What is flooding?
400
This is precipitation that flows over land into streams and rivers, and later enters oceans.
What is runoff?
400
The boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions.
What is divide?
400
This is where the water cycle gets its energy.
What is the sun?
500
Watersheds are seperated from eachother by an area of higher ground called this.
What is a divide?
500
One of the few rivers in the U.S. that flows North.
What is the St. Johns River?
500
This occurs when gravity causes water to move down through pores and other spaces in soil.
What is percolation?
500
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, land, and oceans.
What is the water cycle?
500
This structure, formed by the Colorado River, is 1.6 km deep and 446 km long.
What is the Grand Canyon?
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