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water vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Surface tension | is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible. |
| Mass movement | a large-scale social movement |
| Plucking | or tweezing can mean the process of human hair removal, removing animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's |
| Solvent | is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution |
| Deflation | occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0% and becomes negative. While inflation reduces the value of currency over timeTill |
| Till | an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955. |
| Specific heat | of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance |
| Sand dune | A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. |
| Longshore drift | is simply the sediment moved by the longshore current. This current and sediment movement occurs within the surf zone. |
| Evaporation | is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase |
| Loess | combines much of the simplicity of linear least squares regression with the flexibility of nonlinear regression. It does this by fitting simple models to |
| Condensation | Condensation |
| Runoff | Erosion Mitigation is Required? Pesticide users will need to plan their... |
| Freezing | This article is about the phase transition. For the process of temperature lowering, see Cooling. |
| Stream | s a continuous body of surface water [1] flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, |
| Melting | or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid. This occurs when the internal energy |
| Tributary | is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake |
| Boiling | or ebullition is the rapid phase transition from liquid to gas or vapour; the reverse of boiling is condensation |
| Flood plain | tretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high discharge. |
| Capillary action | (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid ... |
| Delta | management actions. |
| Universal solvent | for its ability to dissolve many substances; Alkahest, a hypothetical solvent able to dissolve every other substance |
| Alluvial fan | is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an |
| Mechanical weathering | processes are either physical or chemical. The former involves the breakdown of rocks and soils through such |
| Groundwater | is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. About 30 percent of all |
| Chemical weathering | Weathering processes are either physical or chemical. The former involves the breakdown of rocks and soils through such mechanical effects as heat, water, ice |
| Glacier | forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as crevasses |
| Erosion | is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust |
| Continental glacierthe | a large, thick, and continuous mass of glacier ice covering a vast area of land, typically over 50,000 square kilometers |
| Sediment | the study of sediment—the fragmented material (like silt, sand, gravel, or even chemical precipitates) that is transported and deposited by water, wind, or ice, or accumulates from organisms |
| Ice age | a prolonged period of significantly lower global temperatures that causes the expansion of continental ice sheets and alpine glaciers |
| Deposition | the process where a substance changes directly from a gas to a solid without passing through the liquid phase, or the process where particles settle and accumulate from a fluid (like water or air) to form a new location |
| Valley glacier | a long, tongue-shaped mass of ice that forms in mountainous regions and flows downhill through a valley, often following the course of a pre-existing river |
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