Vocabulary Activity # 1 of Unit 1-Lesson 3

Water that collects on Earth's surface.

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Aquifer

Materials carried by a stream.

• Stream load

• Water table

• Aquifer

The upper boundary of the rock or sediment that is saturated with water.

• Channel

• Tributary

• Water table

A smaller stream that feeds into a river and eventually into a river system.

• Tributary

• Divide

• Stream load

A rock layer that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.

• Aquifer

• Divide

• Surface water

Water found in the spaces between rock particles below Earth's surface.

• Surface water

• Tributary

• Groundwater