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Vocabulary
Water Cycle
Runoff/Groundwater
Water Features
Watershed
100
This is the process about how Earth's water moves from the Earth's surface, to the air, and back to the Earth's surface again.
What is the water cycle?
100

Water inside of plants is transferred from the plant to the atmosphere as water vapor

What is transpiration?

100
Water that soaks into the ground through tiny cracks, holes, or pores is called ____________.
What is groundwater?
100
Oceans cover over ______________ of the Earth's surface.
What is 70 percent?
100

Water flows downhill within the soil.

What is a through flow?

200
The moisture of plants is heated and becomes a vapor.
What is transpiration?
200

when material is picked up by the river and moved downstream.

What is Transportation?

200
This water flows into lakes, oceans, or rivers.
What is runoff?
200

The point at which 2 rivers join.

What is a confluence?

200

Water flows downhill within the soil.

What is percolation?

300

 involves the wearing away of rock. Rivers erode the riverbank and bed. Material carried by the river is broken down into small, rounder and smoother pieces.Erosion involves the wearing away of rock. Rivers erode the riverbank and bed. Material carried by the river is broken down into small, rounder and smoother pieces.

What is Erosion?

300
Water vapor cools as it rises and changes back into a liquid.
What is condensation?
300

Erosion, Transportation, Deposition

What is are river processes?

300

the sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration.

What is evapotranspiration?

300

all water flowing downhill over the surface of land via spontaneously formed channels. These channels will reach a creek, stream, or river and eventually flow into a pond, lake, or ocean

What is surface runoff?

400
Surface water that travels downhill and drains into streams and rivers is also known as ____________.
What is runoff?
400

when the river drops what it is transporting. This is usually when the river loses energy.

What is Deposition?

400

occurs on the outside bend of a river. The river erodes the banks and migrates sideway. This carves out a wider and flatter valley floor.

What is lateral erosion?

400
Glaciers are made of __________________. This water is frozen.
What is freshwater?
400
Watersheds are separated by __________. (There are three, name one.)
What is ridge, hill, or mountain?
500

The total length of all streams in the basin divided by the total area of the basin.

What are drainage density?

500
Water is always moving through something called the water cycle, or the _____________________.
What is the hydrological cycle?
500

the process of interrupting the movement of water in the chain of transportation events leading to streams

What is an interception?

500

__________________ and _____________ are two types of wetlands.

What are swamps and marshes?

500
Watersheds are sometimes called _____________.
What is a drainage basin?