Definitions 1
Water located in the ground, within the soil and rock.
What is ground water?
A change in state from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
A large covering of ice over and area of land or mountains.
What is an ice cap?
An underwater mountain that can form into an island, like Hawaii or Iceland.
What are seamounts?
A group of parts that work together to perform a specific task.
What is a system?
Water that has high salt and mineral content.
What is hard water?
A change in state from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
A slow moving mass of ice formed over hundreds of years as a result of snow accumulation.
What is a glacier?
The concentration or amount of dissolved salts in water
What is salinity?
A liquid made from two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
What is water?
A zone beneath the water table and the ground that is saturated with water, sometimes forming a kind of underwater lake.
What is an aquifer?
a change in state from a liquid to a solid.
What is freezing?
An area of land where all water collects in the same place (e.g. a river or a wetland like Cootes Paradise).
What is a watershed?
The process of removing contaminants from water.
What is purification?
Water or another fluid that is moving in a specific direction.
What is flow, current, or stream?
Water flowing along the surface of the ground.
What is runoff, which forms into streams, creeks or rivers?
A change in state from a solid to a gas without going through a liquid state.
What is sublimation?
The process of using microorganisms to break down hazardous materials in soil or water.
What is bioremediation?
Materials such as sand and silt and mud that are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice.
What is sediment, or particulates?
A measure of how much people take from nature compared to the amount of natural resources available for people.
What is an ecological footprint?
The watering of crops by diverting water from, lakes, rivers, or underground water sources.
What is irrigation?
A change in state from a gas to a solid without going through a liquid state.
What is deposition?
A boundary between the unsaturated zone and the saturated zone of water located within the ground or soil.
What is the water table?
An area were fresh water from rivers and salt water from the oceans mix to form moderately salty water.
What is an estuary?