| A | B |
| fresh water | Makes up 3% of the water on Earth |
| Plume | Area of contamination |
| Precipitation | Water falling from the clouds as snow, sleet, rain or hail |
| oceans | makes up 97% of Earth's Water |
| Condensation | gas cooling and changing to a liquid |
| Evaporation | liquid heated and changes to a gas |
| Aquifer | Material that allows water to move through it. |
| Transpiration | plants give off water vapor through their leaves |
| watershed | area of land that catches precipitation and channels it into a large body of water such as a lake, river or marsh |
| runoff | water that flows over the ground surface |