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science ch. 11.1-3
6 grade
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Fresh Water | Water that has no salt, little or no taste and no color or smell. |
Salt Water | Water that contains dissolved salts and other minerals. |
Water Cycle | The continuous movement of water thruogh the enviromant of Earth |
Evaporation | Process in which water turns from a liquid to vapor in the air |
Condensation | Process in which water vapor turns back to a liquid usually when the air cools. |
Precipitation | Water that falls from the clouds. |
Divide | A ridge or continuous line of high land from which water flows in different directions. |
Drainage Basin | An area in which all of the water on one side of a divide flows inbetween two divides |
Turnover | The rising and sinking of cold and warm water layers in a lake. |
Eutrophication | The increase of nutrients in a lake or pond |
Ice Burg | Mass of ice floating in the ocean. |
Groundwater | Water that is held underground |
Permeable | Substance that liquids can go through |
Impermeable | Substance that liquids can not go through |
Water Table | The top of of a region that is saturated, or completley filled with water. |
Aquifer | An underground layer of permeable rock or sedament that contains water. |
Spring | A flow of water from the ground at a place were the surface of the land dips below the water table. |
Artesian Wall | A well in which water flows to the surface naturaly because it is under preasure. |