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water 101
water
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fresh water | water that is not salty has little to no taste ,color and smell |
| salt water | water that contains dissolved salt and other minerals |
| water cycle | the continuous movement of water through the environment of earth |
| evaporation | when water changes from a liquid to a gas |
| condensation | water vapor in the atmosphere becomes liquid |
| precipitation | water falls from the clouds |
| divide | a ridge or continuous line of high land from which water flows in two different directions |
| drainage basin | an area into which all of the on one side of a divide flows |
| turnover | the rising and sinking of cold and warm water layers in a lake |
| iceberg | mass of floating ice in the ocean |
| groundwater | water held underground |
| permeable | a substance liquid can flow through |
| impermeable | a substance that water can not flow through |
| water table | the top a region that is saturated, or completely filled with water |
| aquifer | an underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that contains water |
| spring | flow of water from the ground at a place where the surface of the land dips below the water table |
| artesian well | a well in which water flows to the surface naturally because of pressure underground |