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| 7455993960 | Evaporation | conversion of a liquid into a gas |  | 0 |
| 7455993961 | transpiration | Process in which water is absorbed by the root systems of plants, moves up through plants, passes through pores (stomata) in their leaves or other parts, and evaporates into the atmosphere as water vapor |  | 1 |
| 7456004382 | condensation | conversion of a gas into a liquid |  | 2 |
| 7456004383 | precipitation | water in the form of rain, sleet, hail, and snow that falls from the atmosphere onto land and bodies of water |  | 3 |
| 7456004384 | infiltration | downward movement of water through soil |  | 4 |
| 7456007214 | percolation | passage of a liquid through the spaces of a porous material such as soil |  | 5 |
| 7456007215 | watershed | Land area that delivers water, sediment, and dissolved substances via small streams to a major stream (river) |  | 6 |
| 7456007216 | runoff (stormwater runoff) | freshwater from precipitation and melting ice that flows on the earth's surface into nearby streams, lakes, wetlands, and reservoirs |  | 7 |
| 7456007217 | aquifer | Porous, water saturated layes of sand, gravel, or bedrock that can yield an economically significant amount of water |  | 8 |
| 7456013545 | confined aquifer | bounded above and below by less permeable beds of rock, and its water is confined under pressure |  | 9 |
| 7456013546 | unconfined aquifer | an aquifer with a permeable water table |  | 10 |
| 7456013547 | wetland | land that is covered all or part of the time with salt water or fresh water, excluding streams, lakes, and the open ocean |  | 11 |
| 7456015407 | Lake Turnover | process of a lake's water turning over from top (epilimnion) to bottom (hypolimnion). During the summer, the epilimnion, or surface layer, is the warmest. It is heated by the sun. The deepest layer, the hypolimnion, is the coldest. The sun's radiation does not reach this cold, dark layer. |  | 12 |
| 7456019983 | Zone of Saturation | zone where all available pores in soil and rock in the earth's crust are filled by water |  | 13 |
| 7456019984 | Zone of Aeration | zone in soil that is not saturated with water and that lies above the water table |  | 14 |
| 7456022482 | water table | Upper surface of the zone of saturation in which all available pores in the soil and rock in the earth's crust are filled with water |  | 15 |
| 7456022483 | littoral | top layer called the littoral zone is near the shore and consist of the shallow sunlit waters to the depth penetrated by sunlight |  | 16 |
| 7456022484 | limnetic zone | the open sunlit surface layer away from the shore that extends to the depth penetrated by sunlight |  | 17 |
| 7456025220 | profundal zone | the deep open water where it is too dark for photosynthesis to occur |  | 18 |
| 7456025221 | benthic zone | bottom of the lake inhabited mostly by decomposers, detritus feeders, and some fishes |  | 19 |
| 7456025222 | brackish water | Brackish water or briny water is water that has more salinity than fresh water | 20 | |
| 7456028341 | photic vs aphotic | Photic Zone: the upper layer of a body of water delineated by the depth to which enough sunlight can penetrate to permit photosynthesis. Aphotic Zone: The aphotic zone is the portion of a lake or ocean where there is little or no sunlight. | 21 | |
| 7456032403 | estuary | partially enclosed coastal area at the mouth of a river where its fresh water, carrying fertile silt and runoff from land, mixes with salty seawater |  | 22 |
