EWMS: Earth's Water Vocabulary

The path that a stream follows…

• Water Shed 
• Tributary
• Groundwater
• Channel

The quantity of heat required to raise a unit mass of homogeneous material 1 °K or 1 °C in a specified way, given constant pressure and volume…

• Specific Heat
• Adhesion
• Cohesion
• Polarity

In a solution, the substance in which the solute dissolves…

• Solvent
• Sublimation
• Transpiration
• Polarity

Any form of water that falls to Earth’s surface from the clouds…

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Transpiration

A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater…

• Surface water
• Tributary
• Watershed
• Aquifer

The change of state from a liquid to a gas that usually occurs at the surface of liquid over a wide range of temperatures…

• Condensation
• Transpiration
• Evaporation
• Sublimation

The area of land that is drained by a river system…

• Channel
• Tributary
• Watershed
• Water Table

The water that is beneath Earth’s surface…

• Surface water 
• Water Cycle
• Channel
• Groundwater

The force that holds molecules of a single material together…

• Cohesion
• Adhesion
• Specific Heat
• Solvent

A property of a system in which two points have opposite characteristic, such as charges or magnetic poles…

• Specific Heat
• Polarity
• Cohesion
• Aquifer