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BMS Water Planet Vocabulary Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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I'm a ridge, or continuous line of high land from which water flows to one side or the other | divide |
I'm the type of material that water can flow through | permeable |
I'm the rising and sinking of cold and warm layers in a lake | turnover |
I'm a well in which water flows upward because of pressure beneath the surface | artesian well |
I'm the highest part in the ground that is saturated, or completely filled, with water | water table |
I'm the increase of nutrients in a lake or pond | eutrophication |
I'm water that is not salty and has little or no taste, color, or smell | fresh water |
I'm an underground layer of permeable rock that contains water | aquifer |
I'm the continuous movement of water through the environment of Earth | water cycle |
I'm water that falls from the clouds | precipitation |
I'm water that flows from the ground where the surface of the land dips below the water table | spring |
I'm the water held underground | groundwater |
I'm water that contains dissolved salts and other minerals | salt water |
I'm the type of material that does NOT allow materials to flow through it | impermeable |
I'm the process in which water vapor in the atmosphere becomes liquid | condensation |
I'm the area into which all the water between divides flows | drainage basin |
I'm a mass of ice floating in the ocean | iceberg |
I'm the change of water from liquid to vapor | evaporation |