Hydrosphere Vocabulary

What is the term for areas of land that drain into a stream, river, lake, or other body of water?

• Watershed

• Reservoir

• Infiltration

• Salinity

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What is a rock layer that collects and stores water called?

• Reservoir

• Aquifer

• Watershed

• River basin

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What is a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply called?

• Reservoir

• Aquifer

• Groundwater

• River basin

What is the term for water's capability of dissolving all substances?

• Salinity

• Universal solvent

• Permeability

• Infiltration

Definition of upwelling

• Wide variety of plants and animals live in an estuary.

• The measure of how salty water is
  

• a process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface

• The speed at which water flows

Microscopic organisms that float freely with oceanic currents and in other bodies of water

• necton

• benthos

• plankton

• sediment

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What are the organisms that live on the ocean floor called?

• benthos

• nectin

• plankton

• eels

What is the hydrosphere?

• only the oceans

• only freshwater sources

• all the Earth's water in the ground, on the surface, and in the air

• the layer of air just above the atmosphere

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What is an aquifer?

• a seal's waterproof coat

• an underground layer of rock or earth which holds groundwater

• the deepest part of an ocean

• visible mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in Earth's atmosphere

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_____________ is water found in an aquifer.

• vapor

• fog

• groundwater

• saline water

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