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Fresh Water
| Term | Definition | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Channel | The path that a stream follows | ||
| Watershed | The area of land that is drainage by a water system | ||
| Tributary | A stream that flow in to a big steam | ||
| Divide | The boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions | ||
| Load | The material carried by a stream | ||
| The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean. | |||
| Evaporated | |||
| Takes place when water from the ocean and the Earths surface changes into water vapor. Energy from the sun cause evacuation. Water gains energy during evaporation | |||
| Precipitation | Is rain snow sleet and hail that falls from the clouds onto the earth land and oceans. | ||
| Condensation | Takes place when vapor cools and changes into water droplets that form clouds in the atmosphere. Water loses energy during condensation. | ||
| Runoff | Is precipitation that flows over land into steams and rivers. This water later enters oceans. | ||
| Percolation | Is the down ward movement of water through pore and other spaces in soil due too gravity. | ||
| Dissolve load | Is material carried in solution which means that the material is dissolved in the water. Sodium and calcium are some of the materials are some of the material in the dissolved load | ||
| Bed load | A stream can bounce large material such as pebbles and boulders along the stream bed. These rocks are called the bad load | ||
| Suspended load | A stream can carry small rock and soil in suspension. These material called the suspended load makes a river look muddy | ||
| Water cycle | |||
| Artesian Spring | A spring whose water flows from a crack in the cap rock over the aquifer. | ||
| Evaporation | |||
| Well | A well must be drilled deep enough so that when the water table drops them the well still contains water. | ||
| Groundwater | Tends to mover downslope towards lower elevations. | ||
| transpiration | is the process where plants absorb water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves. | ||
| Water table | The upper surface of underground water the upper boundary of the zone of saturation. | ||
| Porosity | The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that contains open spaces. | ||
| The ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open space or pores. | |||
| Zone of aeration | Rainwater passes through the upper zone of groundwater | ||
| Zone of saturation | The water collects at the bottom of the groundwater. | ||
| Permeability | |||
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