Streams & Rivers
Q. What is runoff?
A. Water that flows over the ground
surface rather than soaking into the
ground.
Wetlands
Q. Why are the Everglades worth
preserving?
A. Many endangered species live there.
Name That Word!
Q. The area of soil in Q. An underground
which the pores
layer of rock or
are totally filled
sediment that
with water.
holds water.
A. saturated zone
A. aquifer
Streams & Rivers
Q. Nature of the ground surface, rate
of rainfall, slope of the land (flat or
hilly)… what do these factors
determine?
A. Whether water soaks into the
ground or flows over as runoff.
Groundwater
Q. Where can you find groundwater? Be
specific.
A. In the saturated zone, permeable layer,
or at the water table
Name That Word
Q. A ridge of land
Q. The land area
that separates one that supplies
watershed from
water to a river
another.
system.
A. divide
A. watershed
Name That Word
Q. A smaller
stream or river
that feeds into
a main river.
A. tributary
Q. A river and all
of its tributaries.
A. river system
Name That Process
Q. Process by which soil and fragments
of rock are deposited in a new
location.
A. deposition
Name That Word!
Q. Materials that
allow water to
easily pass
through them.
Q. What are two
ways that water
comes to the
surface naturally?
A. springs & geysers
A. permeable
Name That Section!
Q. Which Aquifer, A or B, is more likely to
produce an artesian well?
A. B
Streams & Rivers
Q. Slope, volume of water, and shape
of channel.
A. Factors affecting the speed of a
river.
Name That Section of the River!
Q. The many small
Q. The river
streams that
meanders
come together at
through this flat
the source of the
section of land.
river.
A. headwaters
A. flood plain
Name That Word!
Q. The top of the
saturated zone.
A. water table
Q. Materials that
water cannot
pass through
easily.
A. impermeable
Name That Word
Q. What is shown in the picture?
A. oxbow lake
Name That Section!
Q. What is located at letter A?
A. headwaters
Name That Process
Q. Process by which fragments of soil
and rock are broken off from the
ground surface and carried away.
A. erosion
Name That Section!
Q. What is located at letter D?
A. tributary
Stream and Rivers
Q. If there is an increase in the amount
of water in a river, how does this
change the speed of the river?
A. The river will flow faster.
Name That Section!
Q. What is located at letter E? At F?
A. oxbow lake
and meander
Name That Word
Q. What happens when the volume of
water in a river increases so much
that the river overflows its
channels?
A. flood
Groundwater
Q. If you would like to obtain
groundwater when you drill a well,
where should you drill to?
A. into an aquifer or below the water
table
Name That Word!
Q. A long ridge
Q. A barrier across
formed by deposits
a river that may
of sediments
redirect the flow
alongside a river
of a river to other
channel.
channels or store
the water in an
artificial
lake.
A. levee
A. dam
Name That Word
Q. An area of land covered with a
shallow layer of water during some
or all of the year.
A. wetland
Name That Word!
Q. New water that
enters an aquifer
from the surface.
A. recharge
Q. A well in which
water rises
because of
pressure within
the aquifer.
A. artesian well
Rivers and Streams
Q. How is an oxbow lake related to a
meander?
A. When the river breaks through the ends
of a meander, the cut off body of water
that remains is the crescent shaped
oxbow lake.
Wetlands
Q. How do wetlands help control
flooding?
A. By absorbing extra runoff from
heavy rains.