Water Unit Vocabulary

Part of Earth that consists of water in any form...oceans, rivers, lakes, glaciers, groundwater, water vapor

• Precipitation

• Hydrosphere

• Runoff

• Flood Plain

Continual movement of water in the Earth's Atmosphere

• Condensation

• Groundwater

• Tributary

• Water Cycle

Part of the water cycle - turning liquid into gas

• Evaporation

• Delta

• Well

• Aquifer

plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through leaves

• flood plain

• watershed

• transpiration

• hydrosphere

part of the water cycle - changes from a gas to a liquid

• well

• water cycle

• tributary

• condensation

part of the water cycle - form of water that falls from the clouds and reaches the Earth's surface (rain, snow, sleet, hail)

• precipitation

• evaporation

• delta

• runoff

land the supplies water to a river system

• water cycle

• aquifer

• flood plain

• watershed

underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water

• aquifer

• transpiration

• hydrosphere

• delta

hole in the ground to reach a supply of water

• tributary

• stream

• watershed

• well

water that flows over the ground surface, instead of soaking into the ground

• runoff

• condensation

• groundwater

• hydosphere