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| one of the four largest bodies of water? | ocean
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| a large natural stream of water? | river
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| the beginning of a brook or river? | source
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| a body of freshwater or salt water of considerable size surronded by land? | lake
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| an artifficial waterway or navigation or irragation? | canal
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| a river that flows into a lager river? | tributary
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| water that lies beneath the surface of the earth? | ground water
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| one of the four largest bodies of water? | ocean
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| a large natural stream of water? | river
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| the beginning of a brook or river? | source
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| a body of freshwater or salt water of considerable size surronded by land? | lake
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| an artifficial waterway or navigation or irragation? | canal
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| a river that flows into a lager river? | tributary
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| water that lies beneath the surface of the earth? | ground water
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| the movement of water from the earth to air and back again to the earth by evaporation, condesation, and precipitation? | water cycle
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| a portion of the sea extending into the land? | gulf
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| part of water that reaches into the land, smaller than a gulf? | bay
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| the part of a river where its waters empty into the sea or into another river? | mouth
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| an area where the soil is under shollow water, such as a swamp, marsh, or bog? | wetland
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| a large river of ice formed from sno on high ground? | glacier
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| a part of a river's course where the water rushes over rocks? | rapids
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| a place where water is collected and stored for future use, especialy an artificial basin created by the damming of a river? | reservior
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| the flow of a stream of water, either in a river or through a ocean? | current
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| the regular rising and falling of the ocean? | tide
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| the study of the ocean and the life within it? | oceanography
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| a narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water? | straight
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| a narrow inlet of the sea between the steep sides of a glaciated valley? | fjord
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| a narrow strip of water extending into a coast? | inlet
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| land built up by deposits at the mouth of a river? | delta
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| the broad mouth of a river int which the tide flows? | estuary
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| a riverbank higher than the surronding land? | levee
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| a ussaly dry river channel, found in dessert regions, that fills up with running water durin a cloudburst? | wadi
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| a bed of a salt lake that contains water at irrugular peiods? | playa
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| the level below which the ground is saturated with water? | water table
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| a body of water encircled by a coral reef? | lagoon
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| a very powerful ocean wave set off by earthquakes or undersee volcano eruptions that causes great destuction on land? | tsunami
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| a floating mass of ice that has brocken off from a glacier? | iceberg
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