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| The ability to take in a material |
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| The tendency of water to stick to other substances |
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| An underground layer of rock or soil that holds water |
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| A well in which water rises because of pressure within aquifer |
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| The ability of a fluid to exert an upward force on an object that is immersed in the fluid |
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| The process that moves water through a narrow porous space |
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| The attractive force between water molecules |
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| The process of warm air cooling as it rises and releasing moisture in the form of a liquid |
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| The measure of mass of a substance per unit volume |
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| A long period of scarce rainfall |
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| The process by which a liquid is changed into a vapor |
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| Water on Earth that is used for human consumption |
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| A large mass of moving ice and snow on land |
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| Water located below Earth’s surface |
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| The ability for humans to eat |
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| The portion of Earth that contains water |
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| A large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier |
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| A glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center |
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| Does not allow water to move through |
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| Water that seeps into rocks and between particles of soil |
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| Having pores or openings that allow water(or other liquids) to flow through them |
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| Uneven distribution of charges across a molecule |
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| The rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from clouds onto the Earth’s land and oceans |
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| A lake that stores water for human use |
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| The region of land drained by a river and its tributaries |
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| Precipitation that flows over land into streams and rivers. This water later enters oceans. |
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| Having the ability to be dissolved in another substance |
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| The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius |
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| The force that acts on the particles at the surface of a material |
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| Water found on the surface of the Earth |
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| Water vapor given off by plant photosynthesis |
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| The quality of water that makes it able to dissolve more substances that any other solvent can |
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| The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean |
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| The land area that supplies water to a river system |
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| A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year |
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