Chapter 11--The Water Cycle

What is occurring in this water cycle at A?

a

Condensation

Evaporation

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What is occurring in this water cycle at a?

a

Condensation

Evaporation

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What is runoff?

• Surface water that runs over the land and flows into streams instead of sinking into the ground.

• Water that collects in the spaces between rocks and moves slowly underground

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What is groundwater?

• Surface water that runs over the land and flows into streams instead of sinking into the ground.

• Water that collects in the spaces between rocks and moves slowly underground

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Movement of water from the atmosphere to the earth's surface and back to the atmosphere is called the​ (a)   .

• water cycle
• runoff
• groundwater

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How are reservoirs useful?

This is heated groundwater that blasts out of the ground

• Mud pot
• Hot spring
• Fumarole
• Geyser

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This is the saltiness of ocean water

• drainage basin

• geyser

• water table

• salinity

A ​ (a)   forms when the roof of a cave collapses.

• sinkhole
• geyser
• spring
• drainage basin

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A river that joins another river

• geyser
• spring
• drainage basin
• tributary