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science 11.1-11.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fresh water | not salty has little or no taste smell or color |
| salt water | contains dissolved salt and other minerals |
| water cycle | continuous movement of water through the Earth's environment |
| evaporation | process in which water changes from a liquid to vapor |
| condensation | process in which water vapor in atmosphere becomes a liquid |
| precipitation | water falls from a cloud |
| divide | ridge or continuous line of high land |
| drainage basin | a watershed, an area in a divide flows |
| turnover | the rising and sinking of cold and warm water layers in a lake |
| iceberg | mass of ice floating in the ocean |
| eutrophication | an increase of nutrients in a lake or pond |
| groundwater | water held underground |
| permeable | substance that liquids can flow through |
| impermeable | substance that liquids can't flow through |
| water table | the top of the region that is saturated or completely filled with water |
| aquifer | is an underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that contains water acts like giant filter |
| spring | a flow of water from the ground at a place where the surface of the land dips below the water table |
| artesian well | well which water flows to the surface naturally because it is under pressure |