Water Vocabulary Practice 2

A valley with steep, vertical sides and a flat bottom, typically formed by glacial erosion.

• U-shaped valley

• V-shaped valley

• levee

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The point where a river or stream enters a larger body of water, such as a lake, ocean, or another river.

• Oxbow Lake

• mouth

• meander

An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds groundwater and can supply it to wells and springs

• mouth

• meander

• aquifer

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A crescent-shaped lake formed when a meander in a river is cut off from the main channel.

• Oxbow Lake

• permeable

• levee

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The ability of a material (like rock or soil) to allow fluids (like water) to pass through it.

• permeability

• impermeable

• aquifer

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The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.

• artesian well

• water cycle

• watershed

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A well in which water rises under pressure from a confined aquifer to the surface without being pumped

• watershed

• artesian well

• watercycle

Water that exists beneath the Earth's surface in pores and fractures in rock and soil

• Oxbow Lake

• tributary

• groundwater

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Not allowing fluids to pass through.

• impermeable

• bedload

• floodplain

All water eventually empties into

• an ocean

• a river

• the ground

• a lake

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