Vocab 1
Measure of dissolved salts in water
What is Salinity?
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A stream of water usually smaller than a river
What is Creek?
An area of land that is bound by ridges or hills and creates a basin
What is Watershed?
Area where a river meets the sea
What is Estuary?
Condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls
What is Precipitation?
Body of water above ground
What is Surface Water?
Heat from the sun, or solar energy, powers the evaporation process.
What is Evaporation?
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Water movement through plants and its evaporation from aerial parts (leaves, stems, flowers)
What is Transpiration?
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Precipitation that does not soak into the soil but instead moves on the Earth's surface
What is Run-Off?
Body of rock and sediment thats saturated
What is Aquifer?
What is the percentage of fresh water found on earth?
What is 3%?
Not permitting passage (as a fluid) through a material
What is Impermeable?
What is the percentage of salt water found on Earth?
What is 97%
Large mass of slowly moving ice
What is Glaciers?
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The level where the ground will be filled with water if you go any lower
What is Water Table?
What is the percentage of fresh water contain in ice caps and glaciers?
What is 67%
An area of land covered by ice in the polar region of a planet
What is Ice Caps?
Having pores or openings that let liquids or gases to pass through
What is Permeable?
Portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries
What is River Basin?
Water that comes from an underground resource without passing through a community water system
What is Spring Water?
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