Water Unit Vocabulary Review

What is a recharge zone?

• Artificial body of water that usually forms behind a dam

• Area of the ground through which water travels downward to fill an aquifer

• Underground rock formations that hold water

• The area of land that is drained by a water system

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What does permeability refer to?

• The % of the total volume of rock or sediment that consists of open spaces

• Allows fluid to pass through open spaces or pores

• Water found below ground

• The accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain

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What is groundwater?

• Water in lakes, streams, and rivers

• Water that is safe for drinking

• Water found below ground

• Contains waste from homes and industries

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What defines a watershed?

• Increased water temperatures due to human activities

• Underground rock formations that hold water

• The area of land that is drained by a water system

• Process of removing salt from sea water

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What is porosity?

• The % of the total volume of rock or sediment that consists of open spaces

• The accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain

• Area of low oxygen

• Water in lakes, streams, and rivers

What is an aquifer?

• Underground rock formations that hold water

• The area of land that is drained by a water system

• Disease causing organism

• Structure built across a river to control its flow

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What is surface water?

• Artificial body of water that usually forms behind a dam

• Process of removing salt from sea water

• Water found below ground

• Water in lakes, streams, and rivers

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What constitutes a river system?

• Increased nutrients in a body of water due to human activities

• The accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain

• Underground rock formations that hold water

• A flowing network of rivers & streams that drain a river basin

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What is a pathogen?

• Process of removing salt from sea water

• Water that is safe for drinking

• Disease causing organism

• Structure built across a river to control its flow

What is desalination?

• Water in lakes, streams, and rivers

• Process of removing salt from sea water

• Increased water temperatures due to human activities

• The area of land that is drained by a water system