Water and Atmosphere-Chapter 1-Fresh Water

4. The land area that supplies water to a river system.
8. A well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer.
12. A stream or river that flows into a larger river.
13. The top of the saturated zone, or depth to the groundwater under Earth’s surface.
15. The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.
16. The process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves.
17. The layer of rocks and soil above the water table in which the pores contain air as wells as water.
18. A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.
19. A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another.

1. An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow and reproduce.
2. Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.
3. An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water.
5. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
6. The area of permeable rock or soil in which the cracks and pores are totally filled with water.
7. A characteristic of materials, such as clay and granite, through which water does not easily pass.
9. The buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater lakes and ponds that leads to an increase in the growth of algae.
10. A lake that stores water for human use.
11. Characteristic of material that contains connected air spaces, or pores, that water can seep through easily.
14. The continual movement of water among Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land surface through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.