Definitions

Question 1

Transpiration

Answer 1

Plants giving off water vapor into the atmosphere

Question 2

Precipitation

Answer 2

Water falling in a liquid or solid state

Question 3

Water Table

Answer 3

Upper layer of groundwater that fills spaces between rocks above an impermeable layer below

Question 4

Condensation

Answer 4

Water vapor cooling, expanding, and changing into liquid water droplets to form clouds

Question 5

Infiltration

Answer 5

When surface water enters soil

Question 6

Percolation

Answer 6

The process by which water moves downward through soil under gravitational forces

Question 7

Watershed

Answer 7

Land that runoff goes into (stream, lake, etc.)

Question 8

Tributaries

Answer 8

Feeder streams/small streams

Question 9

Divide

Answer 9

High land area separating different watersheds

Question 10

Runoff

Answer 10

Water that flows over land into rivers/water running off of land

Question 11

Evaporation

Answer 11

The process of turning liquid into vapor

Question 12

Aquifer

Answer 12

A body of rock where large amounts of water can be stored

Question 13

Stream Channel

Answer 13

The path a stream follows

Question 14

Groundwater

Answer 14

Water that seeps into the ground

Question 15

Aquiclude

Answer 15

Impermeable layers that block groundwater

Question 16

Geyser

Answer 16

Hot spring that erupts from small vents

Question 17

Continental Shelf

Answer 17

Part of a continent submerged under shallow water

Question 18

Continental Slope

Answer 18

The slope between the continental shelf and the ocean floor

Question 19

Current

Answer 19

A body of water moving in a definite direction through a surrounding body of water

Question 20

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Answer 20

A chain of underwater mountains (seamounts)

Question 21

Reservoir

Answer 21

A large lake used for water supply

Question 22

Salinity

Answer 22

The dissolved salt content in a body of water

Question 23

Seamount

Answer 23

An underwater mountain

Question 24

Sinkhole

Answer 24

A hole in the ground caused by something collapsing overtop of it

Question 25

Thermocline

Answer 25

The transition layer between warm water at the surface and the cool water in the deeper part of a body of water

Question 26

Trench

Answer 26

A long cut or ditch in the ground

Question 27

Drainage Basin

Answer 27

Where flowing surface water converges to one point (e.g. river mouth)

Question 28

Benthos

Answer 28

Animals that spend their time under/on the ocean floor

Question 29

Nekton

Answer 29

Animals that can swim against water currents

Question 30

Plankton

Answer 30

Plants/animals that drift and float

Question 31

System

Answer 31

A set of things working together as part of a mechanism/network

Question 32

Water Treatment

Answer 32

Process to improve water quality to make it appropriate for a certain use

Question 33

Snowmelt

Answer 33

Surface runoff produced from melting snow

Question 34

Cryospheric Water

Answer 34

The frozen water part of the water cycle

Question 35

Ice Sheet

Answer 35

A particularly large glacier that covers land