Hydrosphere

When the clouds get too heavy and water falls back to earth

• Runoff

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

Water running off the land surface.

• Runoff

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

Plants giving off moisture and releasing water into the air

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Precipitation

The movement of water from the earth and into the atmosphere

• Percolation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Hydrologic Cycle

All the land in which water flows on or under into a major river

• Runoff

• River Basin

• River System

• Tributaries

Streams that flow into other streams increasing the size of the stream that it is joining

• Tributaries

• Watershed

• Aquifer

• River System

Materials that are pushed along the bottom of a stream

• Solution

• Suspension

• Bed Load

• Meander

The movement of water through opening of rocks or soil.

• Sublimation

• Runoff

• Water Table

• Percolation

The process in which material is worn away by a stream.

• Erosion

• Alluvil Fan

• Meander

• Wetland

An area in which one or more rivers enters into the ocean , creating brackish water.

• Wetland

• Delta

• River Basin

• Estuary