Vocabulary from Surface Water and Ground Water

Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…

• watershed
• surface water
• groundwater
• water cycle

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An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.

• water table
• aquifer
• watershed
• river

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Water that stands or flows across the Earth’s surface.

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Runoff

• Divide

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The name of the area that is the upper level of the zone of saturation:

• Zone of Saturation
• Zone of Aeration
• Water Table

channel

• the path that a stream follows

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream

• all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground

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tributary

• a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• the path that a stream follows

• the boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions

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divide

• a stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream

• the boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions

• the path that a stream follows

• the upper surface of underground water; the upper boundary of the zone of saturation

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What is all of the land area whose water drains into a stream system?

• Runoff

• Watershed

• Divide

• Suspension

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Porosity refers to...

• the shape of the particles
• The sorting of the particles
• % of pore space in a material
• % of cement in a material

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If porosity is low then permeability is ______________.

• low
• high