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Lesson 1-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| habiat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live grow and reproduce |
| groundwater | water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock and layers |
| water cycle | the continual movement of water among Earths atmosphere oceans and land surface through evaporation condensation and precipation |
| evaporation | the process by which molecules at the surface of liquid absorb enough energy to change to gas |
| transpiration | the process of which water is lost through a plants leaves |
| precipitation | any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earths surface |
| tributary | a Stream of river that flows into a larger river |
| watershed | the land area that supplies water to a river |
| divide | a ridge hat spearates one water shed form another |
| reservior | a lake that stores water for human use |
| eutrophication | the buildup over time of nuraits in freshwater lakes and ponds that leads to a increase in the growth of algae |
| permeable | Charistics of a material that contains connected air soacesw that water can seep throw easily |
| impermeable | A charistic of materials such as clay and granite through which water dose not easily pass |
| unsaturated zone | the layer of rocks and soil above the water table in which the process contain air as well as water |
| saturated zone | the area of permalbe rock or soil in which the Cracks and proes and tottaly filled with water |
| water table | the top of the saturated zone or depth to the ground water under Earths surface |
| aquifer | an underground layer of a rock or sediment that holds water |
| artesian wall | a well in which water rises because of pressure with the aquifer |
| wet land | a land area that is covered in shalow layer of water |
| surveying | the process of gathering data for a map by using instruments and the principles of geometry to determine distance and elevations |
| digitizng | converting information to numbers for use by a computer |
| pixel | one bit of a digitized image, often appearing as a small square or dot |
| aerial photograph | a photograph taken by cameras mounted in airplane |
| satellite image | a picture of the land surface based on computer data collected from satellites |
| global positioning system | a navigation system that uses satellite signals to locate a radio receiver on earths surface |
| geographic information system | a system of computer hardware and software used to produce Interactive maps |
| topographic map | a map that shows the surface features of an area |
| contour line | a line on a topographic map that connects points of equal elevation |
| contour interval | the difference in elevation from one contour line to the next.contour interval |
| index contour | on a topographic map, a heavier contour line that is labeled with elevation of the contour line.index contour |
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