Freshwater Vocabulary

a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater

• groundwater
• geyser
• aquifers
• spring

Answer explanation

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The change of a gas to a liquid; either by cooling or pressure increase

• evaporation
• condensation
• transpiration
• infiltration

Changing from a liquid to a gas due to an increase in temperature and/or pressure

• precipitation
• condensation
• evaporation
• infiltration

Water with a low concentration of salts; found in streams, lakes, ground, ice, atmosphere.

• freshwater
• geyser
• aquifers
• spring

Large sheets of flowing ice.

• ice wedging
• iceberg
• glaciers
• geyser

Fresh water that moves through pore spaces and breaks in soil and rock beneath the land surface.

• freshwater
• groundwater
• wetland
• permeable

A material that does not allow water or liquid to pass through it

• groundwater
• permeable
• infiltration
• impermeable

Process of water being absorbed into the ground.

• infiltration
• condensation
• transpiration
• infiltration

A large, natural or manmade body of water that is surrounded by land.

• lake
• river
• runoff
• tributary

A material that allows liquids or gases to pass through

• groundwater
• permeable
• infiltration
• impermeable