Earth's Water system
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| What is acid rain? | Rain that has a pH lower than 5.6
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| What is aquifer? | An underground area of sediment and rocks where groundwater collects.
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| What is carnivore? | An organism that eats herbivores or other carnivores.
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| What is condensation? | The process by which a substance in its gaseous state loses energy and enters itss liquid state. One phase in the water cycle.
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| What is evaporation? | The process by which a substance int its liquid state gains enrgy and enters its gaseous state. One phase of the water cycle.
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| What is food chain? | A series of steps through which energy and nutrients are transferred from organism to organism in an ecosystem.
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| What is ground water? | Water that collects underground in an aquifer. This water supplies wells and spring.
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| What is herbivore? | An organis that eats produces(e.g plants or algae)
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| What is hydrosphere? | The water layer of Earth's surfacee.
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| Wwat is precipitation? | Water vapor in the atmosphere falling back to Earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet, or snow. One phase in the water cycle.
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| What is producer? | A plant or otherr organism that concentrates energy from the sun through photosynthesis.
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| What is reservoir? | Protected artificial or natural lakes.
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| What is salinity? | easures how much salt is dissolved in one kilogram of water.
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| What is surface runoff? | Water that flows over land until it reaches lakes, rivers, or other surface water areas.
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| What is surface water? | Water contained in places such as lakes, pond, rivers, streas and reservoirs.
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| What is transpiration? | Process in which plants open tiny open pores on their leaves to gain carbon dioxide but lose water. One phase in the water cycle.
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| What is water cycle? | Describes how watermoves around the Earth by the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration.
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| What is watershed? | An area of land that catches all rain and snow and collects its in one place like a river.
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