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Water Vocab
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Water Cycle - the unending circulation of Earth’s water supply.
2.) Infiltration - the movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore spaces.
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3.) Transpiration - plants absorb water and release it into the atmosphere.
4.) Gradient - the slope or steepness of a stream channel 5.) Stream Channel - the course the water in a stream follows.
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6.) Discharge - the volume of water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time.
7.) Tributary - a stream that empties into another stream. 8.) Base Level - the lowest point to which a stream can erode its channel.
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9.) Meanders - a stream with many bends
10.) Bed Load - the part of a stream’s load of solid material that is made up of sediment too large to be carried in suspension. 11.) Capacity - the maximum load a stream can carry.
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12.) Alluvium - the sorted material deposited by a stream.
13.) Delta - an accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean. 14.) Natural Levee - a landform that parallels some streams.
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15.) Floodplain - the side-to-side cutting of a stream eventually producing a flat valley floor.
16.) Flood - Occurs when the discharge of a stream becomes so great that it exceeds the capacity of its channel and overflows its banks.
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17.) Drainage Basin - the land area that contributes water to a stream.
18.) Divide - an imaginary line that separates the drainage basin of one stream from another.
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19.) Zone of Saturation - the area where water fills all the open spaces in sediment and rock.
20.) Groundwater - the water within this zone 21.) Water Table - the upper limit of the zone of saturation
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22.) Porosity - the percentage of the total amount of rock or soil that consists of pore space.
23.) Permeability - a material’s ability to release a fluid.
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24.) Aquifer - permeable rock layers or sediments that transmit groundwater freely.
25.) Spring - a flow of groundwater that emerges naturally at the ground surface. 26.) Geyser - an intermittent hot spring or fountain in which a column of water shoots up with great force at various intervals.
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27.) Well - a hole bored into the zone of saturation
28.) Artesian Well - any formation in which groundwater rises on its own under pressure. 29.) Cavern - a naturally formed underground chamber.
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30.) Travertine - the calcium carbonate that is left behind producing the limestone that creates this. 31.) Karst Topography - landscape that has been shaped largely by the dissolving power of groundwater.
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32.) Sinkhole - a depression produced in a region where groundwater has removed soluble rock.
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