Impact on the Hydrosphere - Week 1

an area of permeable sediment or rock that holds significant amounts of water.

• Aquifer

• Hydrosphere

• Surface Water

• Wartershed

water that has less than 0.2 percent salt content dissolved in it.

• Freshwater

• Saltwater

• Polluted

• Water Table

water that is stored in cracks and pores beneath Earth’s surface.

• Groundwater

• Aquifer

• Saltwater

• Runoff

system containing all the solid and liquid water on Earth.

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

the contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to life.

• Pollution

• Saltwater

• Runoff

• Aquifer

water that flows over Earth’s surface.

• Runoff

• Aquifer

• Evaporation

• Water Vapor

water from a sea or ocean that has an average salinity of 35 ppt.

• Seawater

• Freshwater

• Stream or River

• Brackish water

the water that fills lakes and rivers.

• Saltwater

• Surface Water

• Oceans

• Aquifers

an area of land that drains runoff into a particular stream, lake, ocean, or other body of water.

• Watershed

• Ocean

• Aquifer

• Water Table

the upper limit of the saturated zone

• Water Table

• Zone of Aeration

• River/Stream

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