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12 Cards in this Set
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Vocab: Sustainable management
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If we use our resources carefully and plan for what we need in the future.
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Vocab: Renewable resource
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A resource that keeps reproducing itself
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Vocab: Precipitation
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water droplets or ice crystals in clouds get too large and they fall to the ground
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Vocab: Aquifers
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rocks with small holes
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Vocab: Groundwater
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water that falls as precipitation and gets soaked into the ground
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Vocab: Water table
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the underground area where the water collects
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Vocab: watershed
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am area pf high land from which precipitation and groundwater flow on both sides.
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Vocab: Headwaters
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where a river begins
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Vocab: Tributaries
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as a river flows downhill from one valley to the next, other streams and rivers flow into it.
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Vocab: Estuary
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When the fresh river water meets the salty ocean water
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Vocab: Water flow
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getting water where it needs to be.
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Vocab: Water Shortages
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There isn't enough water.
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