Vocab Review Lesson 2

Small streams, rivers, and brooks that  feed into a main river (larger body of water).

• Continental Divide

• Tributary

• Watershed

• River Basin

An underground rock layer that collects and stores water.

• Aquifer

• Water Table

• Saturated Zone

• Impermeable

Does not allow water to pass through.

• Permeable

• Continental divide

• Saturated Zone

• Impermeable

The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries.

• Water Table

• Watershed

• River Basin

• Continental divide

Allows water to pass through.

• River Basin

• Permeable

• Continental divide

• Impermeable

The top of the saturated zone.

• Water Table

• Aquifer

  
  

• Saturated Zone

• River Basin

Acts like a funnel draining an area of land into a stream, river, lake or other body of water.

• Continental Divide

• Permeable

• Watershed

• Impermeable

A high ridge in a continent that determines how water flows to the ocean.

• River Basin

• Continental Drift

• Continental Divide

• Tributary

Area underground that is completely saturated with water.

• Unsaturated Zone

• Saturated Zone

• Water Table

• Watershed