Vocab Quiz - Freshwater

Water with 0.2 percent salt or less dissolved in it.

• Saltwater
• Freshwater
• Water supply

A large body of water that forms in a basin surrounded by land.

• Stream
• River
• Lake

A small stream.

• Lake
• River
• Brook

A large stream.

• Lake
• River
• Brook

Large masses of ice that form on land from snow building up year after year.

• Iceberg
• Glacier
• Wetlands

A piece of a glacier that breaks off into the ocean.

• Iceberg
• Ice Sheet
• Wetlands

Water that flows over Earth’s surface.

• Runoff
• Swamp
• Bog

A glacier that flows past a shoreline into the ocean.

• Ice Sheet
• Iceberg
• Ice Shelf

A body of water that flows within a channel (also called a tributary).

• Lake
• Pond
• Stream

A glacier that spreads out over land in all directions.

• Lake
• Ice sheet
• Iceberg