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100
The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean
What is water cycle
100
The gently sloping section of the continental margin located between the shoreline and the continental slope
What is continental shelf
100
Pollution that comes from a specific site
What is point-source pollution
100
pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site
What is nonpoint-source pollution
100
A spring whose water flows from a crack in the cap rock over the aquifer
What is artesian spring
200
A measure of the amount of dissolved salts in a given amount of liquid
What is salinity
200
The steeply inclined section of the continental margin located between the continental rise and the continental slope
What is continental slope
200
The organisms that live at the bottom of the sea or ocean
What is Benthos
200
Plankton is the mass of mostly microscopic organisms that float or drift freely in freshwater and marine environments
What is plankton
200
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater
What is aquifer
300
A long undersea mountain chain that forms along the floor of the major oceans
What is mid-ocean ridge
300
continental rise is the gently sloping section of the continental slope and the abyssal plain
What is continental rise
300
The region near the bottom of a pond,lake,or ocean
What is Benthic environment
300
A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream
What is tributary
300
The percentages of total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces
What is porosity
400
A long narrow valley that forms as tectonic plates separate
What is rift valley
400
A large flat almost level area of the deep ocean basin
What is abyssal plain
400
In the ocean the zone near the surface or at middle depths beyond the sublittoral zone and above the abyssal zone
What is pelagic environment
400
A fan shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream
What is delta
400
The abillaty of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open spaces or pores
What is permeability
500
A submerged mountain on the ocean floor that is at least 1,000 m high and that has a volcanic orgin
What is seamount
500
All organisms that swim actively in open water independent of currents
What is nekton
500
A process of removing salt from ocean water
What is desalination
500
An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks
What is floodplain
500
The upper surface of underground water the upper boundary of the zone of saturation
What is water table
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