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Science
Land and Water Unit - Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Condensation | the process by which water vapor becomes water |
| Erosion | the wearing away and moving of soil and rocks |
| Evaporation | the process by which water becomes water vapor |
| Ground water | water that has soaked into the soil |
| Precipitation | Our "scientific" word rain, snow, sleet or hail |
| Runoff | water that flows over the surface of land |
| States of Matter | the forms that matter exist in: solid, liquid, & gas |
| Water | the clear liquid making up oceans, lakes and streams |
| Water Cycle | the process by which water moves through the ground, evaporates into the air, forms clouds and falls back to earth as rain. |
| Water Vapor | when water molecules escape into the air in the form of gas |
| deposition | the process by which materials that were eroded are dropped somewhere else |
| property | something about an object that helps identify it. |
| Stream table | the model that we used in class that showed us the effects of erosion and deposition caused by water |
| model | is a smaller or larger version of an object used to represent the actual object |
| matter | anything that takes up space |
| pore space | open spaces between soil particles that ground water can seep into |
| weathering | to become worn by the actions of weather |
| flow | to move freely, as a fluid; to proceed or move steadily and easily |
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