Science vocab

An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water.

• Aquifer

• Divide

• Eutrophication

• Water Table

Transpiration

• A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.

• The continual movement of water among Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land surface through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

• The process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves.

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.

Artesian Well

• A characteristic of materials, such as clay and granite, through which water does not easily pass.

• A well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer.

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.

• An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

Divide

• The buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater lakes and ponds that leads to an increase in the growth of algae.

• The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.

• Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

• A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another.

Eutrophication

• An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.

• The buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater lakes and ponds that leads to an increase in the growth of algae.

• A lake that stores water for human use.

Evaporation

• The process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves.

• The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.

• Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

• The area of permeable rock or soil in which the cracks and pores are totally filled with water.

Groundwater

• An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

• Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers.

• A stream or river that flows into a larger river.

• The land area that supplies water to a river system.

Habitat

• An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.

• An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water.

• Characteristic of a material that contains connected air spaces, or pores, that water can seep through easily.

• The process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves.

Impermeable

• The layer of rocks and soil above the water table in which the pores contain air as well as water.

• The area of permeable rock or soil in which the cracks and pores are totally filled with water.

• A characteristic of a material that contains connected air spaces, or pores, that water can seep through easily.

• A characteristic of materials, such as clay and granite, through which water does not easily pass.

Permeable

•  A characteristic of materials, such as clay and granite, through which water does not easily pass.

•  A characteristic of a material that contains connected air spaces, or pores, that water can seep through easily.

• The buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater lakes and ponds that leads to an increase in the growth of algae.

• A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.