1. Water Cycle
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3. Water Cycle Transpiration Storage Surface Runoff Precipitation
Water from plants
Surface Runoff
Over ground to body of water
Precipitation
Water falling back to earth
Rain
Snow
Hail
Respirations
Release of water through breathing
97% is in ocean
2 % is in glaciers
Storage
Rivers
Oceans/Lakes
Groundwater
Snow/Ice
Biosphere
Vaporization
Liquid  Gas
Condensation
Gas  Liquid
Sublimation
Solid  Gas
Freezing
Liquid  Solid
Deposition
Gas → Solid

6. River System River and all its tributaries Source Mouth Tributary
Start point
Mouth
End point
Tributary
Stream that runs into another stream/river
Watershed
Land that drains into river system
Divide
High land that separates watersheds
Meanders
Bend in a river
Delta
Fan-shaped deposit at mouth

10. Characteristics Velocity Gradient Discharge Channel
Distance/Time = velocity
Gradient
Steepness of the slope
Discharge
Volume of water that passes a certain point at a certain time
Channel
Path through which the water flows

11. Drainage Patterns Dendritic Radial Rectangular Trellis
Branch of a tree
Radial
Run in all directions from high point
Rectangular
Right angled turns
Trellis
Tributaries parallel to each other

16. Floodplains Back swamp Oxbow lake Yazoo stream Natural levees
Swamps behind levees
Yazoo stream
Runs parallel to the main stream
Oxbow lake
Curved body of water
Natural levees
Thick deposits built up along the banks

19. Groundwater Water table Ordinary well Spring Aquifers (artesian well)
Upper surface of the zone of saturation
Ordinary well
Human made hole to water table
Spring
Flow out of a hill
Aquifers (artesian well)
layer of permeable rock that contains water, like limestone or sandstone
Hot spring
Hot water from tectonic activity
Geyser
Hot spring that intermittently shoots water/steam into the air