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Water Quality
100

The land area that drains water to the same aquifer, stream, lake, or river.

What is a Watershed?

100
Something used to draw water out of the ground
What is a well
100
Water that collects on the surface of the ground
What is surface water
100
The taking away of soil that occurs on the outside edge of a meander where water moves faster.

What is Erosion?

100

Things in water that are easily seen or measured.

What are Physical Properties?

200

The draining away of water from the surface of an area of land

What is runoff

200
An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
What is a flood
200

The degree of compactness of a substance or Mass divided by Volume.

What is Density

200

A fan shaped deposit of land formed as a river slows down as it goes over flat land

What is an Alluvial Fan?

200

The clarity of water, whether it is clear or murky.

What is Turbidity?
300
Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
What is Groundwater
300

A V-shaped deposition of soil formed as a river slows down as it enters a large body of water.

What is a Delta

300

The outside edge or side of the river.

What is the River Bank?

300
The ability of streams to carry materials as they flow over the land.

What is Carrying Capacity?

300

The measure of the elements and compounds dissolved or suspended in water.

What are Chemical Properties?

400
The place that watersheds generally drain into which is where our water table comes from.

What is an Aquifer?

400

The location where a river starts.

What are Headwaters?

400

Dropping or putting down soil that occurs on the inside edge of a meander where water moves slower.

What is Deposition?

400
The amount of water that is moving in a stream or river.
What is Discharge?
400

All of the living things in water.

What are Biotic Properties?

500
Permeation of a liquid into something by filtration.
What is Infiltration
500

Small streams that feed into a larger river.

What are Tributaries?

500

The land surface that contributes water to rivers that ultimately drain to a large body of water. North Carolina has 17 of them.

What are river basins?

500
A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
What is an Aquifer
500

Name at least 2 of the commonly measured chemical properties of water.

PH, Dissolved Metals and Salts, Amount of Oxygen, Amount of Toxins

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