Hydrology

Question 1:

What is the term for the area drained by a river system?
Answer: Watershed

Question 2:

What is the largest freshwater lake in volume?
Answer: Lake Baikal

Question 3:

Which river has the largest discharge in the world?
Answer: Amazon River

Question 4:

What is the process of water entering the ground called?
Answer: Infiltration

Question 5:

What is the term for water that flows on the surface of the ground?
Answer: Runoff

Question 6:

Which river is the longest in Asia?
Answer: Yangtze River

Question 7:

What is the term for an underground layer of water-bearing rock?
Answer: Aquifer

Question 8:

What is the main source of water in the hydrological cycle?
Answer: Precipitation

Question 9:

What is the term for the mouth of a river where it meets the sea?
Answer: Estuary

Question 10:

Which lake is the saltiest in the world?
Answer: Don Juan Pond