Fresh Water

2. a type of hot spring in which the water is under pressure and bursts periodically into the air
4. new water that enters an aquifer from the surface
6. the land area that supplies water to a river system
8. tiny openings in the soil which may contain air or water
10. the point where a river flows into another body of water
11. characteristics of materials through which water does not easily pass through such as clay and granite
12. Zone a layer of permeable rock or soil in which the cracks and pores are totally filled with water
15. a natural or artificial lake that stores water for human use
16. an underwater layer of rock or soil that holds water
18. at the mouth of a river where the river deposit all its sediment

1. a long ridge formed from by deposits of sediments alongside a river channel
2. a huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land
3. characteristics of materials that allow water to easily pass through them
4. remaining water that flows over the ground surface
5. the many small streams that come together that come together at the source of a river
7. Well a well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer
9. a small stream or river that flows into a bigger river
13. when one water shed is separated from another by a ridge of land
14. an area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year
17. Plain a broad, flat valley through which a river flows