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waters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| habitat | a place where an organism makes its home |
| groundwater | water that exists underground in saturated zones beneath the land surface. |
| water cycle | The water cycle shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere |
| evaporation | happens when a liquid turns into a gas. |
| transpiration | (of a plant or leaf) the exhalation of water vapor through the stomata. "plants lose more than 90 percent of their water through transpiration" |
| precipitation | the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution. |
| tributary | a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake. |
| watershed | any surface area from which runoff resulting from rainfall is collected and drained through a common point. |
| divide | divide their coefficients and subtract their exponents. |
| reservoir | a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply. |
| eutrophication | excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen |
| salinity | the concentrations of salts in water or soils. |
| sonar | a system for the detection of objects under water and for measuring the water's depth by emitting sound pulses and detecting or measuring their return after being reflected. |
| seamount | underwater mountains that rise hundreds or thousands of feet from the seafloor |
| trench | dig a trench or trenches in |
| continental shelf | the area of seabed around a large landmass where the sea is relatively shallow compared with the open ocean. The continental shelf is geologically part of the continental crust. |
| abyssal plain | the largest habitat on earth |
| mid-ocean ridge | they occur along the kind of plate boundary where new ocean floor is created as the plates spread apart. |
| current | a good choice if you want a simple banking platform with no monthly fees. |
| Coriolis effect | an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force ) acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation. On the earth, |
| Climate | the average weather in a given area over a longer period of time |
| El Nino | a warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. |
| La Nina | the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific |
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