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Water Vocabulary
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Environmental Studies
12th Grade
02/17/2010
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Term
Capacity
 Definition
Total amount of load a stream can carry
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Weather
 Definition
Short term events in the atmosphere
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basin
 Definition
large area drained by a stream
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competence
 Definition
Largest rock a stream can move
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Climate
 Definition
Long term events in the atmosphere
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Saltation
 Definition
"bouncing" of eroded material in stream
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Young
 Definition
A swift, straight channeled stream
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oxbow
 Definition
A lake formed from a cut off meander
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Neap
 Definition
extra low tide
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Abrasion
 Definition
scraping type of erosion
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pacific
 Definition
world's largest ocean
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thalway
 Definition
stream's fastest moving part
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antarctica
 Definition
continent at the south pole
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yazoo
 Definition
a parallel tributary
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eutriphication
 Definition
cause of dead zones
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texture
 Definition
soil characteristics
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giardia
 Definition
fresh water bacteria
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denudation
 Definition
removal of material from basin
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