THE WATER CYCLE & ATMOSPHERE
This process occurs when liquid water becomes water vapour because of heat.
Evaporation
The place where a river begins.
Source
The high line or boundary that separates two adjacent drainage basins.
Watershed
A place where people live, such as a village, town, or city.
Settlement
Early human settlements grew next to rivers primarily because rivers provided this essential resource for survival and farming.
Fresh Water
Water that falls from clouds in forms such as rain, snow, or hail.
Precipation
The place where a river reaches the sea or a lake.
Mouth
Water stored underground inside layers of rock.
Groundwater
A long period with little or no rain leading to water shortages.
The line that divides the rivers flowing toward the Atlantic Ocean from those flowing toward the Mediterranean Sea.
Watershed
The continuous movement of water including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and run-off.
Water Cycle
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger one.
Tributary
A continuous, directional movement of water within the ocean.
Current
The situation when there is not enough safe water to meet the needs of a population.
Water Scarcity
You would compare a relief map with this type of map to analyze where people choose to live based on landforms.
Population Density Map
All the water on Earth, including oceans, rivers, ice, groundwater, and water vapour.
Hydrosphere
The path of a river, divided into upper, middle, and lower sections.
Course
The regular rise and fall of the sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon.
The measurement of the number of people living in one square kilometre.
Population Density
A severe drought can reduce reservoir capacity down to 20%, directly causing this global issue for human populations.
Water Scarcity
Water with almost no salt that humans can drink and use, most of which is frozen in ice caps.
Freshwater
The whole area of land drained by a river and all its tributaries
Drainage Basin
The condition when water covers land that is normally dry.
Flood
A landform created by deposition at the mouth of a river (such as the one formed at the river's end).
Delta
Upper courses are dominated by erosion, whereas lower courses are dominated by deposition, which frequently causes this event.
Flood