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Water Jeopardy Terms
Geographical Terms and Understandings; Topic: Water
Question | Answer |
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One of the four largest bodies of water on the earth | Ocean |
A large natural stream of water | River |
The movement of water from the earth to air and back again to the earth by evaporation, condensation, and precipitation | Water Cycle |
The flow of a stream of water, either in a river or through an ocean | Current |
The regular rising and falling of the ocean | Tide |
The study of the ocean and the life within it | Oceanography |
A body of freshwater or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land | Lake |
A portion of the sea extending into the land | Gulf |
Part of a body of water that reaches into the land, smaller than a gulf | Bay |
A narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water | Strait |
A narrow inlet of the sea between the steep sides of a glaciated valley | Fjord |
A narrow strip of water extending inot th ecoast | Inlet |
The beginning of a brook or river | Source |
The part of a river where its waters empty into the sea or into another river | Mouth |
A river that flows inot a larger river | Tributary |
Land built up by deposits at the mouth of a river | Delta |
The broad mouth of a river inot which the tide flows | Estuary |
A riverbank higher than the surrounding land | Levee |
A large river of ice formed from snow on high ground | Glacier |
An area where the soil is under shallow water, such as a swamp, marsh, or bog | Wetland |
Water that lies beneath the surface of the earht | Groundwater |
A usually dry river channel, found in desert regions, that fills with running waterduring a cloudburst | Wadi |
A bed of a salt lake that contains water at irregular periods | Playa |
The level below which the ground is saturated with water | Water Table |
An artificial waterway for navigation or irrigation | Canal |
A place wherre water is collected and stored for future use, espiacally basin created by the damming of a river | Reservoir |
A part of a part of a river's course where the water rushes over rocks | Rapids |
A body of water encircled by a coral reef | Lagoon |
A very powerful ocean wave, set off by earthquakes or undersea volcano eruptions, that causes great destruction on land | Tsunami |
A floating mass of ice that has broken off that has broken off from a glacier | Iceberg |