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Streams and Rivers
Ponds and Lakes
Wetlands
Glaciers/Icebergs
Water Underground
100
These are smaller streams and rivers that feed into a main river.
What is a tributary?
100
This is a large body of fresh water that is deeper than a pond.
What is a lake?
100
This is an area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.
What is a wetland?
100
This is a huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land.
What is a glacier?
100
This is what it is called when people drill for water.
What is a well?
200
This is the process by which fragments of soil and rock are broken off from the ground surface and carried away.
What is erosion?
200
This reaches the bottom of a pond so plants can grow.
What is sunlight?
200
Wetlands help to control this problem from extra runoff from heavy rain.
What is a flood?
200
The ocean around Antarctica is full of these large floating pieces of ice.
What is an iceberg?
200
This is a type of hot spring from which water burds periodically into the air.
What is a geyser?
300
This is the place where many streams come together at the source of the river.
What is the headwater?
300
This is a lake that stores water for human use.
What is a reservoir?
300
This is a kind of wetland in southern Florida which is incredibly diverse.
What is the Everglades?
300
Most present day glaciers are these types of glaciers.
What is a valley glacier?
300
This is a material that easily allows water to pass through.
What is permeable?
400
This is a crescent shaped body of water cut off from a river.
What is an oxbow lake?
400
This is the process when water in a lake mixes due to temperature change.
What is lake turnover?
400
These are animals that utilize wetlands while migrating.
What are migrating birds?
400
Continental glaciers are only found in these two places.
What is Antarctica and Greenland?
400
This is a type of material that does not allow water to pass though.
What is impermeable?
500
This is the process by which rock and soil are left behind.
What is deposition?
500
This is the process where nutrients build up in a lake and algae gows.
What is eutrophication?
500
These are three types of wetland environments.
What are bogs, marshes, and swamps?
500
This is the percent of Antarctica that is covered in ice sheets.
What is 85%?
500
This is the top of the saturated zone.
What is the water table?