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Surface Water Vocabulary Words
Third Grade
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Surface Water
• Water found above ground, on land. It can be streams, rivers, ponds, or lakes or even puddles!
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Fresh Water
• Water that is not high in salt content, found in most lakes, rivers, streams and ponds.
Asheville North Carolina
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Runoff
• Excess water, not absorbed by the soil, that flows downhill.
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Headwater
• The upper part of a stream. Many times, several of these will come together to make a stream or river. Sometimes they form waterfalls.
Headwaters and waterfalls at Nantahala North Carolina . These are in the mountains,
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Stream
• A small river or channel of water.
• This is a stream in Western Carolina.
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River
This is the Cape Fear River in North Carolina
A large stream of flowing water.
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Dam
A barrier that stops the flow of water
• Cheoah Dam in Graham County, North Carolina
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Lake
A large body of surface water surrounded by
land.
This is Lake Auman in West End, North
Carolina.
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Delta
An area of land formed by sediment at the mouth of a river.
River delta in East Carolina.
Some times deltas are called estuaries.
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Watershed• The area of land that catches rain and snowmelt
when it flows as runoff.
A watershed includes all the water from the mountains to the ocean.
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Salt Water
• Water that contains salt, found in oceans and sometimes in lakes.
This is a shipwreck off the North CarolinaCoast
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Ocean• The whole body of salt water that
covers most of Earth, or one of the sections of this water.
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GlacierA large body of accumulated
ice and compacted snow that is found year-round
and slowly moves downhill.
Sometimes glaciers look like a river of ice.
There are no glaciers in North Carolina.
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Polar Caps
• Areas of permanent ice that cover the north and south poles of Earth.