Water

Question 1

erosion

Answer 1

the process when wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

Question 2

weathering

Answer 2

the process of wearing or being worn by long exposure to the atmosphere

Question 3

water cycle

Answer 3

the continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean

Question 4

evaporation

Answer 4

takes place when water from the oceans and the Earth’s surface changes into water vapor from the sun gains energy

Question 5

condensation

Answer 5

takes place when water vapor cools and changes into water droplets that form clouds in the atmosphere loses energy

Question 6

precipitation

Answer 6

rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from clouds onto the Earth’s land and oceans

Question 7

surface runoff

Answer 7

precipitation that flows over land into streams and rivers which later enters oceans

Question 8

tributary

Answer 8

a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger system

Question 9

watershed

Answer 9

the area of land that is drained by a water system

Question 10

deposition

Answer 10

the process in which material is laid down

Question 11

delta

Answer 11

a fan-shaped mass of material is laid down

Question 12

floodplain

Answer 12

an area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks

Question 13

water table

Answer 13

the upper surface of underground water; the upper boundary of the zone of saturation

Question 14

sewage treatment plants

Answer 14

a facility that cleans the waste materials found in water that comes from sewers or drains

Question 15

septic tank

Answer 15

a tank that separates solid waste from liquids and that has bacteria that break down the solid waste

Question 16

sea stacks

Answer 16

isolated outcrops of rock standing in the ocean

Question 17

sea arches

Answer 17

remnants of once-continuous sea cliffs, where lava has previously met the sea and added to the size of the island

Question 18

sea caves

Answer 18

a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea

Question 19

wave-cut terraces

Answer 19

a shallow-water shelf inclining gently away from the base of an eroded sea cliff

Question 20

headlands

Answer 20

a narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea

Question 21

beach

Answer 21

an area of the shoreline made up of material deposited by waves

Question 22

glacier

Answer 22

a large mass of moving ice

Question 23

glacial drift

Answer 23

the rock material carried and deposited by glaciers

Question 24

till

Answer 24

unsorted rock material that is depostied directly by a melting glacier

Question 25

stratified drift

Answer 25

a glacial deposit that has been sorted and layered by the action of streams or meltwater

Question 26

continental divide

Answer 26

a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea