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What is an aquifer
A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater
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Two Ways Water Transfers to the Ocean?
Aquifers, Seepage from the ground, Surface Runoff.
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What is a runoff?
The water that runs from snowfields glaciers and rivers.
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Name two things that draw water back to the earth?
Rain, Seepage from the ground, Sleet, Snow, Gravity, Precipitation of the land.
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What is Transpiration?
The evaporation of water from plant leaves.
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What are four reasons why we need water?
Photosynthesis, Digestion, Cellular Respiration, Animal Habitat.
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What is the water cycle? (short)
Water falls to the ground by rain and is evaporated back to the air.
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How much water enters the atmosphere?
80%
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What is the reason that plants grow where they grow?
The amount of precipitation received in an area decides how many and what types of plants grow there.
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How much water falls back as rain
52%
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