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habitat a person's usual or preferred surroundings.
groundwater water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
water cycle the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere.
evaporation the process by which a liquid turns into a gas.
transpiration the process in which water is lost as water vapor from the aerial parts of the plants through stomata.
precipitation the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution.
tributary a freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream, river or other body of water
watershed an area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water,
divide the elevated boundary separating areas that are drained by different river systems
reservoir an artificial lake where water is stored.
eutrophication the environment becomes enriched with nutrients, increasing the amount of plant and algae growth to estuaries and coastal waters.
salinity the measure of dissolved salts in water
sonar Sound Navigation and Ranging
seamount an underwater mountain formed by volcanic activity
trench long, narrow depressions on the seafloor that form at the boundary of tectonic plates
continental shelf the edge of a continent that lies under the ocean
abyssal plain a flat region of the ocean floor, usually at the base of a continental rise, where slope is less than 1:1000
mid-ocean ridge a continuous range of underwater volcanoes
current a flow of electrical charge carriers, usually electrons or electron-deficient atoms
Coriolis effect the pattern of deflection taken by objects
Climate the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.
El Nino a warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
La Nina a climate pattern that describes the cooling of surface ocean waters along the tropical west coast of South America.
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