Vocabulary List 11

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The high ground that separates two drainage basins.

Pollution that can be traced back to its origin. Examples would be waste water from factories or sewage treatment facilities.

The changing of a gas back into a liquid which causes cloud formation.

This is also called a drainage basin. This is where rain or snow drains downhill into a particular body of water.

The rapid spread of algae in a water environment. This happens when too many nutrients enter the water.

This is the changing of water from a solid directly to a gas with no liquid stage in between.

Water that trickles through the soil and collects in pockets called aquifers.

Pollution that cannot be traced back to its origin. Examples would be when rain water carries substances like lawn fertilizers, lawn chemicals, motor oil and animal waste into storm sewers or rivers.