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What is the supply of fresh water found beneath Earth’s surface in the pores of soil, sand, and rock?
Groundwater
What is the cycle that describes the movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere called?
The Water Cycle
water found above the ground
Surface water
What happens when water overflows onto land that is normally dry?
Flooding
What is the underground layer of rock, sand, or soil that holds groundwater called?
An aquifer
What is the process of water falling back to Earth's surface in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Precipitation
food, recreation, jobs, water and tranportation
ways humans use the ocean waters
a prolonged period of abnormally dry weather that creates a water shortage
Drought
What is a set of connected, interacting parts that form a more complex whole?
A system
What is the process of changing from a gas back into a liquid called?
Condensation
What is it called when water cannot be absorbed into them and water remains on the surface? Concrete and asphalt are two examples.
Impermeable
when neighborhood pollution moves into the nearest waterway after a heavy rain
Runoff
when commercial fishing boats catch large amounts of fish at one time disrupting the biodiversity of a species
overfishing
What is the process by which water moves through plants from roots to their leaves called?
Transpiration
What refers to the number of spaces between particles in a substance?
Porosity
What is a special kind of wall that holds back water called?
A dam
How does the ocean control climate?
What is the process of liquid water changing into water vapor, its gas state?
Evaporation
What refers to the ease with which substances such as water move through a material?
Permeability
What is energy that comes from moving water called?
Hydroelectric Power