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Groundwater |
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in tunderground and soil and rock layers |
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Tributary |
streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river |
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watershed |
land area that supplies water to a river system |
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divide |
watersheds are seperated from another by a ridge of land |
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eutrophication |
nutrient build-up in lakes that leads to an increase in the growth of algea |
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sonar |
uses sound waves to calculate the distance to an object |
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abyssal plain |
area covered by mud and silt |
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Coriolis Effect |
effect of Earth's rotation on direction of winds and currents |
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El Nino |
climate event that happens every 2-7 years in the Pacific causes warm air warmer weather |
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La Nina |
surface waters are colder than normal colder weater |
