Hydrosphere Vocabulary Quiz

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All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
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Hydrosphere
Water Cycle
Lithopsphere
Atmosphere

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Q1
All the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
Hydrosphere
Water Cycle
Lithopsphere
Atmosphere
45s
Q2
The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries
Watershed
Groundwater
River Basin
Hydrosphere
45s
Q3
Smaller streams and rivers that flow into a main river
Aquifer
Tributaries
Runoff
Groundwater
45s
Q4
Water that moves across the land surface and into streams and rivers
Runoff
Infiltration
Aquifer
Groundwater
45s
Q5
Downward movement of water through soil.
Runoff
Groundwater
Infiltration
Permeable
45s
Q6
Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff.
River Basin
Surface Water
Hydrosphere
Water Table
45s
Q7
Does not contain any saltwater and can be rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, and wetlands
Freshwater
Hydrosphere
Aquifer
Water Table
45s
Q8
Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
Impermeable
Hydrosphere
Groundwater
Watershed
45s
Q9
Huge, slow moving sheets of ice
Glaciers
Aquifer
Tributaries
Iceberg
45s
Q10
Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
Impermeable
Permeable
Runoff
Groundwater
45s
Q11
Impassable, not allowing liquids or gases to pass through
Permeable
Impermeable
Watershed
Aquifer
45s
Q12
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows water to flow through it.
Runoff
Aquifer
Watershed
Groundwater
45s
Q13
The level below which the ground is saturated with water.
Watershed
Water Table
Surface Water
Glacier
45s
Q14
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
Groundwater
Watershed
Water Table
Surface Water
45s
Q15
A large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea.
Glacier
Tributaries
Iceberg
Aquifer
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