Vocabulary
an area of permeable sediment or rock that holds significant amounts of water
What is aquifer?
water that falls from earth
What is precipitation?
glacier that spreads across land in all directions
What is Ice Sheet
the source of most wetlands supply of water
what is runoff
area of land is saturated with water for all or part of the year
What is wetland?
The upper limit of the saturated zone
What is water table?
liquid water turns into water vapor by this process
What is evaporation?
this type of ice does not affect sea level
What is sea ice
a river is a large one of these
what is stream?
wetland that is cool and highly acidic
what is bog?
an area of land that drains runoff into a particular stream, lake, ocean, or other body of water
What is watershed?
the process that creates water droplets and helps to form clouds
What is condensation?
a long column of ice taken from a glacier to study temperatures
What is ice core?
a high point that water flows down on either
what is a divide?
wetland that is warm and has bushes and grasses
What is marshes?
a glacier that forms in the mountains
What is alpine glacier?
What is transpiration?
this surface reflects the sunlight and allow temperatures to remain cooler
What is ice?
a large basin of water that is surrounded by land
What is a lake?
wetland that is warmer and has bushes and trees
What is swamp?
the measure of the ability of water to flow through rock and sediment
What is permeability?
the 8 parts of the water cycle
What is infiltration, accumulation, sublimation, transpiration, runoff, condensation, precipitation, evaporation?
human activity that has increased the level of CO2 in earth's atmosphere
What is burning fossil fuels?
watersheds often drain into this
What is stream?
the four important tasks of a wetland
What is store water, filter pollutants, reduce erosion, and provide habitats?