Water Vocabulary

1. contamination of water by waste matter or other material that is harmful to organisms that are exposed to the water
6. a temperature increase in a body of water that is caused by human activity
8. all the bodies of freshwater, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground
10. pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site
12. a structure that is built across a river to control a river's flow
14. suitable for drinking
15. an artificial body of water that usually forms behind a dam
17. the water beneath the Earth's surface
18. a microorganism, another organism, a virus, or a protein that causes disease; an infectious agent
20. the accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain

2. pollution that comes from a specific site
3. the percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces
4. a process that increases the amount of nutrients in a body of water through human activities such as waste disposal and land drainage
5. a process of removing salt from the ocean water
7. water that contains wastes from homes or industries
9. the ability of a rock or sediment to lets fluids pass through its open spaces or pores
11. an area in which water travels downward to become part of an aquifer
13. the area of land that is drained by the water system
16. a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater
19. a flowing network of rivers and streams draining a river basin