Factors Affecting Earth Systems VOCABULARY

MATCHING Match the term with the correct definition, please. water table the upper boundary, or surface, of groundwater watershed the area of land that is drained by a river system surface water water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, floodwater, and runoff groundwater water found in the spaces between soil particles and cracks in rocks below the Earth's surface potable water that is suitable to drink MATCHING. Again. Match the term with the correct definition, please. reservoir a body of water that usually forms behind a dam channel the path that a stream or river follows tributary a smaller stream that feeds into a river and eventually into a river system divide a ridge of land that separates one watershed from another aquifer a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater MATCHING. Last time. I promise. Match the term with the correct definition, please. eutrophication an increase in the amount of nutrients, such as nitrates, in a marine or aquatic ecosystem thermal pollution any heating of natural water that results from human activity water pollution waste or other material added to water so that it is harmful to organisms that use it or live in it point source pollution pollution that comes from a specific site nonpoint source pollution pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single, specific site; more difficult to control