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vocabulary words

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Define: Nonpoint source pollution   Answer: Hard to identify. Ex: salt applied to icy roads, cow manure, and fertilizers. These all become nonpoint source pollution problems when it rains.  
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Define: Stormwater runoff   Answer: Rainwater that runs over the land, picks up nonpoint source pollutants, and eventually ends up in our streams and lakes.  
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Define: Water Resources   Answer: All of the ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands in an area.  
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Define: Watershed   Answer: All of the land area which drains to a particular body of water.  
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Define: Hydrologic cycle   Answer: The process by which the water in our enviroment is constantly recycled and purified.  
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Define: Evaporation   Answer: The water is changed from liqid to gas by heat.  
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Define: Condensation   Answer: The water is gas to liqid/solid by cooling  
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Define: Precipitation   Answer: The condenced water falls to earth as rain or snow.  
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Define: Transpiratation   Answer: The process by which pants release water throgh their leaves.  
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