Surface and Ground Water

Any of the water liquid or soil water on Earth's surface

• Atmospheric water
• Groundwater
• Desalinated water
• Surface water

The upper layer of soil and rock that contain air as well as water

• saturated zone

• unsaturated zone

• Subsoil
• Topsoil

Materials that have small and unconnected pores which water cannot pass through easily

• Permeable

• Impermeable

• Absorbent materials
• Waterproof materials

Materials that have large and connected pores which allows water to pass through easily

• Solid rocks
• Permeable

• Non-porous substances
• Impermeable

Is a land area covered with water (marshes, swamps and bogs)

• Wetland
• watershed

• tributary

• Desert

A lake that stores water for human use, such as drinking, watering crops, boating and fishing

• dams

• reservoir

• Wind turbine operation
• Solar panel installation

The land area that supplies water to a river system

• Watershed
• Estuary
• groundwater

• river

The underground area where water fills the cracks and pores in soil and rocks

• unsaturated zone

• saturated zone

• Reservoir
• Aquifer

Any layer that can hold water

• Reservoir
• Lake
• Aquifer
• Pond

Is a hole sunk into the ground to reach a supply of water

• well
• pond
• river
• lake