chapter 14

freshwater is a renewable

Another name for the water cycle is the

About 97.5% of earths water is

is water that is relatively pure, with few dissolved salts

More than three quarters of the water on Earth is blank, the rest is liquid

freshwater is distributed blank in both time and space

water that flows over land and has not been adsorbed into the ground is called

• ocean water

• runoff

• groundwater

• a tributary

All of the land areas that supplies water to a particular river system is called

• glacier

• river

• watershed

• tributary

Water trickles down through the soil and rock to become

As water is pulled down gravity, it passed through layers of soil and rock. These blank layer have spaces, or pores, for water to pass through