Groundwater
Permeability is the ability to.
what is the measure of water's ability to flow through rocks?
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A naturally flowing channel of water.
What is a stream?
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A runoff flows into a basin or a depression in the landscape.
What is a lake?
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Large mass of moving ice.
what is a glacier?
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The data which scientists use come from ______.
what is ice cores?
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The upper limit of the saturated zone.
What is a water table?
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The highest points of that surround a watershed.
What is a divider?
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Erosion, landslides, and collapse of volcanic cones form.
What is a formation of lake basins?
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The process of ______ forming is when snow above compresses snow on the bottom into ice.
What is the process of glaciers forming?
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Human activities make ___ rise.
What is making CO2 rise?
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Forms where the water table rises to Earth's surface
What is a spring?
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A tiny channel formed by water flowing downhill.
what is a rill?
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Over _____ percent of lakes are in Canada.
What is 60%?
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A location where you cannot find alpine glaciers.
What is Australia?
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Earth's average surface temperature increases ______ and _____ start to melt.
What is melting glaciers and Ice sheets?
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Something brings groundwater to the surface.
What is a well?
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Small streams that form near divides.
what is a head water?
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The reason for ________ not staying constant in lakes is because of evaporation.
What is the reason for water levels in lakes not constant?
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Earth's largest ice sheet is located in.
what is Antarctic?
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As snow and ice melt the energy absorbed from the sun increase this is called.
what is a positive feedback loop?
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How far is groundwater below the surface.
What is hundreds of meters below the surface?
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Where freshwater and salt water mix.
What is an estuary?
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The _______ acts like a barrier and prevents mixing between the layers in a lake.
What is a thermocline?
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Earth's second largest ice is located in.
what is Greenland?
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The last ice age began.
What is 125,000 years ago?
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