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Water that contains low concentration of dissolved salts.
What is fresh water
Where is fresh water found.
What is found in rivers and streams.
Where is salt water found.
What is found in oceans, some salt lakes, and marshes.
The movement of water when it changes its state around the world
What is water cycle.
A deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it.
What is canyon.
Water that has souked into the earth,often between saturated soil and rock.
What is ground water.
A relatively flat area next to a river's banks that experiences periodic flooding.
What is Flood Plains.
Water or any other fluid that moves in a specific direction.
What is current.
An underground part of rock or soil that contains and stops water.
What is Aquifer.
The distance between the top of one wave, and the top of the next.
What is Wavelength.
Snow or rain, that contains small amounts of sulfric or nitric acid.
What is What is acid precipitation
The rising and falling of the ocean surface because of the different gravitaional pulls of the sun and the moon.
What are tides.
A back and forth movement of water in a lake that makes the surface rise and fall.
What is Seiche.
A district where fresh water from rivers and salt water from the oceans, mix to make moderately salty (Saline) water.
What are Estuaries.
The bonus of chlorine to water to kill microorganisims.
What is Chlorination.
A large mass that is made off ice and snow that moves slowly over land.
What is Glacier.
An area circled by high land so then all water runs to a common destination.
What is Water shed.
The highland of land that divides water flowing into the pacific ocean from those flowing north and east.
What is continental divide.
The upward movement of water through soil because of the attraction of water molecules to soil particles.
What is capillary action.
A measure of how well organisms reproduce.
What is Productivity.
The formation of clumps from particles suspended in a fluid.
What is Floculation.
The watering of crops by making water from a river, lake, or underground water source, go to the crops to water them
What is Irrigation.
A layer of rock, clay, or silt which water then cannot move quickly.
What is Aquitard.
Mixing of lower and upper levels of a form of, usually caused by convection currents.
What is overturnes.
Small rivers or strteams that join into a larger river.
What is Tributaries.