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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.
300
What is Transpiration?
The evaporation of water from plant leaves.
300
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%