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water cycle - ANSWERSthe continuous circulation of water throughout our environment aquifers - ANSWERSlayers of porous underground rock where water can flow storages - ANSWERSwhere water can be found within the hydrologic cycle watershed - ANSWERSthe total land area that contributes water ...

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Unit 4 Vocabulary ~ Environmental
Science Questions & Answers
water cycle - ANSWERSthe continuous circulation of water throughout our environment

aquifers - ANSWERSlayers of porous underground rock where water can flow

storages - ANSWERSwhere water can be found within the hydrologic cycle

watershed - ANSWERSthe total land area that contributes water into a particular
waterway

Drainage Basin - ANSWERSlarge watersheds

overland flow - ANSWERSanother way to say "surface runoff"

topography - ANSWERSthe shape of a land surface that determines what land area will
make up a watershed

Hydrologic Cycle - ANSWERSanother name for the Water Cycle

stream order - ANSWERSmeasures the relative size of streams

benthic - ANSWERSbottom dwelling

invertebrate - ANSWERSan organism with no backbone

insects - ANSWERSanthropods with aquatic larval stage

crustaceans - ANSWERSaquatic anthropods with an exoskeleton

annelids - ANSWERSsegmented worms

mollusks - ANSWERSsoft, unsegmented body enclosed in a hard shell

shredders - ANSWERSorganisms that shred and eat leaves and other organic matter
that enters the waters

collectors - ANSWERSorganisms that gather and feed on decaying material and
bacteria

grazers - ANSWERSorganisms that remove and eat green plants and algae off of rocks
or the bottom of the stream

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