Hydrosphere Vocab

Aquifer

• Water located in rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, and reservoirs, also water located in the upper layers of soil

• The part of precipitation that seeps down through the soil until it reaches rock material that is saturated with water.  It is stored in spaces between the rock particles, and slowly moves downward due to gravity

• An underground layer of water-bearing rock that is permeable, usually sedimentary rock

• An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel

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Watershed

• Water located in rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, and reservoirs, also water located in the upper layers of soil

• The part of precipitation that seeps down through the soil until it reaches rock material that is saturated with water. It is stored in spaces between the rock particles, and slowly moves downward due to gravity

• An underground layer of water-bearing rock that is permeable, usually sedimentary rock

• An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel

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Runoff

• Water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle

• Substance that dissolves most chemicals, one of the major qualities of water

• Having an uneven distribution of electron density, water has a partial negative charge near the oxygen atom and partial positive charges near the hydrogen atoms

• Water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle

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Universal solvent

• An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel

• Water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle

• Substance that dissolves most chemicals, one of the major qualities of water

• Having an uneven distribution of electron density, water has a partial negative charge near the oxygen atom and partial positive charges near the hydrogen atoms

Cohesion

• Substance that dissolves most chemicals, one of the major qualities of water

• A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to other substances

• A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to each other.

• Having an uneven distribution of electron density, water has a partial negative charge near the oxygen atom and partial positive charges near the hydrogen atoms

Polarity

• Substance that dissolves most chemicals, one of the major qualities of water

• Having an uneven distribution of electron density, water has a partial negative charge near the oxygen atom and partial positive charges near the hydrogen atoms

• A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to each other.

• A property of water that makes its molecules attracted to other substances

Freshwater

• 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

• Portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries, an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet

• Process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• Water containing less than 1,000 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids, most often salts

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What is the "Hydrosphere"?

• All the water on Earth, including water in oceans, rivers, lakes, and even in the air as clouds or rain.

• An area of the ocean where there is not enough oxygen to support marine life.

• A red growth of algae in a body of water due to an excess of nutrients.

• Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

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What is a "Watershed"?

• An area of land where all the water that falls as rain or snow drains into a specific river, lake, or other body of water.

• A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent items forming a complex whole.

• Man-made lake or reservoir used to store water for future use.

• Reliance on someone or something.

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What is "Groundwater"?

• Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

• All the water above the ground’s surface.

• An area of the ocean where there is not enough oxygen to support marine life.

• A red growth of algae in a body of water.

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