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15 Cards in this Set
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A WORLD OF WATER
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SALT WATER |
water such as sea water with a high salt content
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FRESH WATER |
water from sources such as lakes, rivers, ponds, abd wells that contain a low amount of dissolved salts
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WATER QUANTITY |
the amount of water in a space
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WATER QUALITY |
the characteristics of a water resource that makes it sutaible or unsuitable for various uses
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EARTHS FROZEN WATER
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GLACIER |
a large moving mass of compressed ice and snow
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ICE CAP |
a large some shaped glacier that flows outwards from it center and covers a large area especially on land
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ICE FIELD |
an area that feeds two or more glaciers
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VALLEY GLACIER |
a glacier that forms betweeen mountain ranges
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CONTINENTAL GLACIER |
a glacier or ice sheet, covering all or a significant part of a continent
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ICEFALL |
a frozen waterfall make when a glacier flows over a steep cliff
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CREVASSE |
a deep fissure or crack in ice
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PACK ICE |
a floating sheet of ice rarely more then 5 meters thick and breaks easy
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ICEBERGS |
large chunks of
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