Water Cycle Processes and Terminology

This video provides a five-minute geography lesson on drainage basins, covering key terms such as watershed, tributaries, and confluence. It explains the hydrological cycle within a drainage basin, including water movement, storage, and processes like evaporation and transpiration. The lesson offers a 3D perspective to help visualize these concepts.

What is a drainage basin?

• A type of weather pattern

• A large body of water

• An area of land drained by a river and its tributaries

• A type of mountain range

What is the term for the boundary of a drainage basin?

• Watershed

• Confluence

• Tributary

• Source

Where does a river typically begin?

• At a confluence

• At the watershed

• At a tributary

• At the source

What is the meeting point of two rivers called?

• Confluence

• Tributary

• Source

• Watershed

What is the main input of water into a drainage basin?

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

• Percolation

What process describes water being absorbed into the soil?

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Infiltration

• Confluence

What is the term for water moving from soil into rock?

• Evaporation

• Percolation

• Transpiration

• Infiltration

How does water typically leave a drainage basin?

• Through river channels and evaporation

• Through percolation

• Through precipitation

• Through infiltration

What is the process called when water is lost from vegetation?

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Infiltration

• Percolation

What is evapotranspiration?

• The process of water entering the soil

• The combined process of evaporation and transpiration

• The movement of water through a river

• The storage of water in lakes