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Water of Earth
Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Deposition | The process by which material is dropped or settles |
| Alluvium | Rock and Soil deposited by streams |
| Flood Plains | An area along a river formed from sediments deposited by floods |
| Zone of aeration | upper zone, not completley filled |
| Zone of saturation | Underground, where the water accumilates |
| Water tabel | An underground boundary where the sone of aereation and the zone of the saturation |
| Meandering Stream | different types of rivers |
| Stream Loads | Meaterials carried in a streams water that are collected |
| Infiltration | Water movement into the ground due to the pull of gravity |
| Permeability | A rocks ability to leet water pass through it |
| Porosity | The amount of open space space between individual rock particles |
| Delta | A fan-shaped deposit of alluvium at the mouth of a stream, where the stream empties into a large bodie of water. |
| Stalagmites | water droplets that fall to the floor, creating a cone shape out of the dripstone |
| stalactites | Dripstone, that are sharp and icicle like |