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CH 1
Lessons 1-4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Habitat | an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live grow and reproduce |
| Ground water | Water that fills the cracks in spaces in underground soil and rock layers. |
| Water Cycle | The continual movement of water among Earth's atmosphere oceans and land surfaces trough evaporation, condensation, and percipitation |
| Evaporation | The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to gas |
| Transpiration | the process by which which water is lost trough a plants leaves |
| Percipitation | Any form of water that falls from clouts and reaches Earth's surface as rain snow sleet or hail |
| Tributary | a stream or river that flows into a larger river |
| Water shed | the land area that supplies water to a river |
| Divide | a ridge of land that separates one watershed from another |
| Resevoir | a lake that stores water for human use |
| Etrophication | the build over time of nutriens in freshwater lakes and ponds |
| permeable | characteristic of a material that contains connected air spaces or pores that water can seep through esaly |
| Impermible | a characteristic of materials such as clay and granite through which water does not esaly pass |
| Unsaturated zone | the layer of rocks and soil above the water table which pores contain air as well |
| Saturated zone | the area of permable rocks or soil which the cracks and pores are totally filled with water |
| Water table | The top of the saturated zone or depth to the ground water under the Earth's surface |
| aquifer | an underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water |
| artesian well | a well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer |
| Wet land | a area covered in a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year |
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