SCIENCE VOCABULARY
Unit 2 Bodies of Water and Climates of Europe
River Bank/ Orilla del Río
Current/Corriente
Lake/ Lago
Man-Made/ Artificial (hecho por el hombre)
Riverbed/ Cauce (del río)
Pond/ Charca
Stream/ Arroyo
Course/Curso
Source/fuente
Mouth/Desembocadura
Estuary/Rías
Flow/Flujo
Flow Regime/Régimen de Flujo
Watershed/Vertiente
Tributary/Afluente
Surface Water/Aguas Superficiales
Groundwater/Aguas Subterráneas
Seawater/Aguas Marinas
Reservoir/Depósito, Embalse
The majority of the rivers in Europe are long and have a regular flow.
For this reason, many of them are navigable.
The mouth of European rivers can be in the Mediterranean Sea, The Black Sea, The Caspian Sea, The Atlantic Ocean
and the glacial Arctic Ocean.
The rivers of Spain form
part of three watersheds; the
Mediterranean, Atlantic and Cantabrian.
-The rivers of the
Mediterranean Watershed end in Mediterranean Sea and are short with little flow.
-The rivers of the
Cantabrian Watershed end in the Cantabrian Sea and are short, with high flow
and a regular flow regime.
- The rivers of the
Atlantic Watershed end in the Atlantic Ocean and are short with high flow and
with regular flow regime in Galicia. They are long and with irregular flow
regime in the plateaus and short, with little flow and irregular flow regime in
Andalucia.
-Rivers are bodies of
flowing water that start in the mountains when rain accumulates or snow melts.
Rivers have these features:
The course is the route of the river from its source to its mouth.
An estuary is where seawater flows into the river, it Can form at the
mouth.
Flow is the amount of water the river carries.
Flow regime is the variation in the flow of a river during the
year.
Regular Flow Regime means it
carries the same amount of water all year.
Irregular
Flow Regime means the river can carry a lot of water or a little.
Watershed is where all the rivers and streams flow into the same
sea.
Tributary is where one river flows into another.
Surface Water is water on the surface of the Earth.
Groundwater is water under the ground.
