Earth's Waters Chapter 1

I'm the process in which water vapor in the atmosphere becomes liquid.

I'm the change of water from liquid to vapor.

I'm the type of material that does not let water flow through it.

I'm water that falls from clouds.

Bodies of surface water are called...

Most of Earth's fresh water is found in...

Divides separate...

I'm a mass of ice floating in the ocean.

I'm water that flows from the ground where the surface of the land dips below the water table.

How is water stored in an aquifer?

I'm a well in which water flows upward because of pressure beneath the surface.

What ice formation covers Greenland and Antarctica?

I'm the type of material that water can flow through.

Why doesn't an artesian well need a pump?

I'm water that contains dissolved salts and other minerals.

I'm an underground layer of permeable rock that contains water.

I'm the continuous movement of water through the environment of Earth.

I'm the highest part in the ground that is saturated, or completely filled, with water.

I'm the rising and sinking of cold and warm water layers in a lake.

I'm water that is not salty and has little or no taste, color, or smell.

Precipitation that has become part of an aquifer is an example of...

I'm the increase of nutrients in a lake or pond.

I'm the water held underground.

I'm the area into which all the water between divides flows.

A continuous line of high land from which water flows to one side or the other is...

About how much of the total water on Earth is salt water?