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20 Cards in this Set
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the continous movement of water on earth, though it atmosphere, and in living things on earth
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water cycle
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an increase in nutrients in a lake or pond
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eutrophication
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water that collects and is stored underground
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groundwater
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allowing the passage of water
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permable
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resistant to passage of water
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impermable
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the highest part in the ground that is saturated, or completley filled with water
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water table
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an undergruond layer of permable rock that contains water
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aquifer
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a continous high of land-or ridge from which water drains from one side to the other
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divide
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an area of land which water drains into a stream sytem. the borders are called divides.
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drainage basin
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the yearly rising and sinking of cold and warm water layers in a lake
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turn over
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a flow of water from the ground at a place where the surface of the land dips below the surface.
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spring
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a well in whic pressurized water flows upward to the suface
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artisan well
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the amount of a substance that is contained in another substance such as dissolved sugar in water.
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concentration
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the scienc and buisness of raising and harvesting fish in a controlled situation
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aqua culture
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the process of removing the salt from salt water
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desalination
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a small sewage system, often for one home or buisness; that uses an undergrund tank to treat waste water
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septic system
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A system that collects and treats wastewater from a city of town
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sewage system
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a structure that hold back and controls the flow of water in a river or other body of water
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dam
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a section of a waterway, closed off gates in which the water level is raised or lowerd to move ships through
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lock
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the process of supplying water to land to grow crops.
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irregation
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