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| evaperation, condinsation, percipation, transperation, ground water, sink, watershed, aquifer |
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| porous calicium limestone which filters ground water and returns it to discharge areas called springs |
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| any one of several ecosystems in which the sink of the area holds water above the ground |
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| product of longshore drift which gives added protection from surge |
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| floods and washes away coastline, if area is below sea level water becomes blocked inland causing further distruction |
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| the digging of a channel off the coast to allow for watercraft travel |
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| erosion and its effects on coast |
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| erosion strips away coast and efferts must be made to limit its effects for multiple reasons, ecosystems, tourisim, organisms in that ecosystems |
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| salt and fresh water mix very diverse populations and spurs many ecosystems |
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| sea walls benifets and probloms |
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benifet-reduce erosion, reduce runnoff
probloms- reduce coast, hinders natural ecosystems |
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| what are natural buffer to erosion |
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| mangrove red black and white, , oysterbeds, cypress trees, and barier islands |
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| natural recharge area for the aquifer many times the lowest point of the watershed is a sinkhole |
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| suspended particles in water making it cloady |
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| what can wetlands prevent by being a buffering zone for nitrogen, phosphrousand various runnoff things |
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| a single recharge area for aquifer over thousands of aceres |
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| the unique attractive ability of water to attract other water mollicules and what causes it |
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| adhesion principle created by polar principle of water |
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| the ability for water to attract other molicules like salt |
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| the heat at which a substance changes temperature |
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| the ability for some substances to change phases before they reach their heat capacity becouse of fast changes |
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| explain why ice a solid of water will float on liquid water |
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| the solid as latent heat decreases crystalyze taking up more space while keeping mass the same therefore reducing density |
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| a layer at apx 33 feet which reduces temperature up to 20 degrees |
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| the ability to displace more weight then somthing it weighs in a fluid based upon archmedes principle |
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| example and working deffination of a mixture and a solution |
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solution- cool aid two seperate substances mix completly making then hard to seperate
mixture-milk two or more substances sit suspended by one another but do not mix completly |
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| why is salt a unique substance expecially as it applies to water |
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Na- sodium explodes when added to water
Cl- green poisoness gas which kills all life forms
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1. percipitation
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| what are some unique properties of water which make it unique and set the stage for all life on our planet |
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1. conducts electricity
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| principle of law of pressure temperature and density |
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| boyal, the deeper the water the colder it is the more pressure there is and the more dence the water is |
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| shallowest color spectrum |
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| the speed of sound when compared to light in water |
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| sound is faster in water therefore the speed of the light and sound are apx the same speed |
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| water going through semipermiable membrane |
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| spreading from high concentration to low concentration |
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| fan shaped deposit of debris in an estuary |
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| out of control algea growth in areas where there is too much nutrients |
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| process of eutrophacation |
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| the growth of algea to the point at which oxygen is removed from water during night phase of photosysnthesis |
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| a direct sourse of a polutant |
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| pollution sourse is untracable |
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| the effect of hydrogen bonding allowing for boyancy |
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