1º ESO BILINGUAL: GROUNDWATER AND GLACIERS

Answer the following questions:


  1. Where does groundwater run and where is it stored?
  2. Where does most of the water come from?
  3. When it rains, what happens with some of the water?
  4. What happens when this water reaches impermeable rocks?
  5. Define "aquifer"
  6. What does groundwater form when it finds a way to the surface?
  7. Make a diagram of the value of groudwater.
  8. What kind of water is there in a glacier?
  9. Define "glacier"
  10. Where are glaciers found?
  11. What happens when a glacier reaches the sea?
  12. Define "iceberg"
  13. Read the following definitions and look up the following words in the dictionary (www.wordreference.com):
    1. Bowl-shaped depressions excavated by the force of the ice at the top of the mountains.
    2. The part of the glacier that flows slowly downhill: 
    3. Fragments of rock deposited along the sides or at the end of the glacier:

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