Lesson 2Lesson 2Where is Where is

fresh water fresh water found?found?

fresh water• drinking water• less dissolved

salts than salt water

• starts as rain or snow

groundwater• rain or melted

snow that soaks into ground

• fills spaces between particles of rock & salt

aquifer• Layer of rock & soil that

groundwater occupies

water table• Top level of groundwater in aquifer

• Gets lower when people pump out water faster than it is replaced

rivers• Eventually flow ocean

watershed• area from

which water drains into a river

lakes• Form when

water collects in a low spot

reservoir• artificial lake that forms

behind a dam

Video Clip-Lakes

• 7/10 of Earth’s fresh water • Much in Greenland & Antarctica• covered w/ huge ice sheets

ice

iceberg

• forms when large pieces of ice breaks off a glacier or ice sheet

Make a wordsearch, using the following 10 words and their

meanings.

• Fresh water

• Groundwater

• Aquifer

• Water table

• Watershed

• Reservoir

• Icebergs

• Hydrosphere

• Salinity

• Lakes