Topic 3 Lessons 2 & 3 Vocabulary Practice

The land area that supplies water to a river system

• aquifer

• watershed

• water cycle

• coastline

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An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water

• watershed

• transpiration

• delta

• aquifer

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

• evaporation

• water cycle

• condensation

• precipitation

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A natural stream of water that flows into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river

• condensation

• aquifer

• river

• dune

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

• transpiration

• water cycle

• aquifer

• precipitation

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A hill of sand piled up by the wind

• dune

• delta

• aquifer

• condensation

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the process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves

• condensation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• prescipitation

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The change in state from a gas to a liquid

• condensation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• precipitation

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

• watershed

• river

• aquifer

• water cycle

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a landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake

• delta

• dune

• coastline

• water cycle

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