Question | Answer |
one of the four largest bodies of water? | ocean |
a large natural stream of water? | river |
the beginning of a brook or river? | source |
a body of freshwater or salt water of considerable size surronded by land? | lake |
an artifficial waterway or navigation or irragation? | canal |
a river that flows into a lager river? | tributary |
water that lies beneath the surface of the earth? | ground water |
one of the four largest bodies of water? | ocean |
a large natural stream of water? | river |
the beginning of a brook or river? | source |
a body of freshwater or salt water of considerable size surronded by land? | lake |
an artifficial waterway or navigation or irragation? | canal |
a river that flows into a lager river? | tributary |
water that lies beneath the surface of the earth? | ground water |
the movement of water from the earth to air and back again to the earth by evaporation, condesation, and precipitation? | water cycle |
a portion of the sea extending into the land? | gulf |
part of water that reaches into the land, smaller than a gulf? | bay |
the part of a river where its waters empty into the sea or into another river? | mouth |
an area where the soil is under shollow water, such as a swamp, marsh, or bog? | wetland |
a large river of ice formed from sno on high ground? | glacier |
a part of a river's course where the water rushes over rocks? | rapids |
a place where water is collected and stored for future use, especialy an artificial basin created by the damming of a river? | reservior |
the flow of a stream of water, either in a river or through a ocean? | current |
the regular rising and falling of the ocean? | tide |
the study of the ocean and the life within it? | oceanography |
a narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water? | straight |
a narrow inlet of the sea between the steep sides of a glaciated valley? | fjord |
a narrow strip of water extending into a coast? | inlet |
land built up by deposits at the mouth of a river? | delta |
the broad mouth of a river int which the tide flows? | estuary |
a riverbank higher than the surronding land? | levee |
a ussaly dry river channel, found in dessert regions, that fills up with running water durin a cloudburst? | wadi |
a bed of a salt lake that contains water at irrugular peiods? | playa |
the level below which the ground is saturated with water? | water table |
a body of water encircled by a coral reef? | lagoon |
a very powerful ocean wave set off by earthquakes or undersee volcano eruptions that causes great destuction on land? | tsunami |
a floating mass of ice that has brocken off from a glacier? | iceberg |