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| water and all things that live in or around water | ||
| primary federal law in the US governing water pollution (1972) | ||
| wise use of natural resources for sustainable long term use (protection, preservation, management, restoration and harvest of natural resources) | ||
| to decay or rot | ||
| oxygen gas absorbed by and mixed into water | ||
| all of the earth's water, including surface water, groundwater and water vapor | ||
| composed of matter that does not come from plants or animals either dead or alive; abiotic | ||
| something found in nature that is useful to humans | ||
| composed of matter that comes from plants or animals either dead or alive; biotic | ||
| contamination of air, water, or soil by substances that are harmful to living organisms | ||
| an artifical lake used to store water | ||
| ecess of natural or man-made substances in a body of water, especially the contamination of water by substances that are harmful to living things | ||
| fitness of a water source for a given use such as drinking, swimming or fishing | ||
| rain or other precipitation containing a high amount of acidity | ||
| an underground layer of sand, gravel or rock that hold water in pores or crevices | ||
| the gaseous envelope surronding the eart; the air | ||
| the part of the world in which life can exist; living organisms and their environment | ||
| to change a gas or vapor to liquid | ||
| to change from a liquid state into a vapor | ||
| the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | ||
| water that flows or collects beneath the earth's surface in saturated soil or aquifers | ||
| a form of water such as rain, snow or sleet that condenses from the atmosphere and falls to earth's surface | ||
| water that soaks into and refills an aquifer | ||
| prescipitation not absorbed by soil | ||
| soaked with moisture | ||
| precipitation that runs off the land surface | ||
| the passage of water through a plant to the atmosphere | ||
| a low lying area where the soil is saturated with water | ||
| the part of the stream where water collects to flow downstream including the streambed, gravel bars and stream banks | ||
| the gradual wearing away of land surface materials especially rocks, sediments, and soils by the action of wind water or ice --- usually includes the movement of such materials form their original location | ||
| the high ground where precipitation first collects and flows downhill in tiny trickles too small to create a permanent channel | ||
| a stream that flows, dries up and flows again at different times of year | ||
| water pollution that comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single outlet | ||
| a stream that flows for most or all of the year | ||
| pertaining to physical geography; relating to the surface features of terrain | ||
| water pollution that comes from a singe source or outlet | ||
| silt, sand, rocks and other matter carried and deposited by moving water | ||
| a stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water | ||
| the watershed, sub-watershed and sub-sub-watershed that includes a particular location | ||
| land next to the stream, starting at the top of the bank, with heavy plant cover on either side |
