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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| habitait | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live grow and reproduce |
| groundwater | Water that fills the cracks in spaces, underground, soil, and rock layers |
| water cycle | The continual movement of water among earth, atmosphere, oceans, and land surface through evaporation, condensation and precipitation |
| evaporattion | The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid, absorbed enough energy to change to a gas |
| transpiratation | The process by which water is lost through plants leaves |
| percipitation | Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches our surface such as rain sleet, sleet, or snow |
| tributary | A steam or river that flows into a larger river |
| watershed | The land area that supplies water to a river system |
| divide | A ridge a land that separates one watershed from another |
| reservoir | A lake that stored water for human use |
| euthrophication | The buildup overtime of nutrients and freshwater, lakes and bonds that leads to an increase in the grows of algae |
| premeadle | Characteristic of a material that contains connected airspace or pours that water can seep through easily |
| impermeable | A characteristic of materials, such as clay and granite through which water does not easily pass |
| unsaturated zone | The layer of rocks and soil above the water table, and which the pores contain air as well as water |
| saturated zone | The area of premade rock or soil, and which the cracks and pours are totally filled with water |
| water table | The top of the saturated zone or depth to the underground Earth surface. |
| aquifer | An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water |
| artesian well | Oh well, in which water rises because of pressure with the aquifer |
| wetland | A area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some all of the year |