Science Vocab for England Exchange People
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- bmp
- best management process
- dam
- a structure built across a river or stream that restricts the flow of water traveling downstream
- sludge
- leftovers from treated sewage water
- thermal pollution
- heat causing pollution
- ebb
- from high to low tide
- groundwater
- water that seeps underground
- fecal coliform
- organisms indicating the presence of pathogens
- impermeable
- liquids cannot soak or flow through
- surface water
- fresh water that is above ground in lakes, ponds, rivers and more
- elongate
- to stretch out
- inlet
- break in barrier island connecting ocean and lagoon
- water table
- the upper boundary of groundwater
- rain barrel
- barrel that collects rain water
- salt wedge
- salt water moving under(sinking due to density) freshwater into estuary
- biological magnification
- proccess by which increasing amounts of toxins are stored in the bodies of organisms as the toxins move up the food chain
- organic chemicals
- fertilizers, gas (organic)
- aquifer
- permeable earth materials that collect and store ground water
- brackish
- mix of fresh and salt water
- island migration
- movement of barrier islands due to deposition and erosion
- barrier islands
- secondary coasts of mainland
- turbidity
- amount of sediment in water-causes water to be murky
- distillation
- removal of salt by heating
- qualitative data
- data collected as words or descriptions
- desalinization
- removal of salt from salt water
- tidal zone
- area on beach between low and high tides
- algal bloom
- bloom of algae because of fertilizers and other things entering water
- rain garden
- adding pervious surfaces
- germination
- sprouting growth of plant from a seed
- non point
- type of water pollution that washes into storm sewers from many places, such as parking lots and golf courses
- street map
- map used to identify human made features
- inorganic chemicals
- not "natural" human tissue ex. acids, salts
- aquifers
- large amounts of groundwater are found in undurground rock fromations called...
- pathogens
- bacteria that comes from wastes (feces)
- cape
- strip of land projecting into a body of water
- reverse osmosis
- removal of salt by filtering through a membrane
- salt pruning
- process when salt spray kills plant growth
- plume
- area of moving groundwater that is contaminated with a pollutant
- hhw
- house hold waste (paint and cleaning supplies)
- geological cross section
- map used to identify type of earth materials beneath a city or town
- glacial meltwater
- sediment-laden water from glaciers
- flow
- from low to high tide
- erosion
- wearing away of the land by the action of water, ice, or wind
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- estuary
- body of water behing barrier island, where fresh and salt water mix
- freshwater lens
- area of freshwater that rests on top of salty water table under barrier islands
- well
- used to pump groundwater to the surface for household use
- bedrock (clay)
- an example of natural aquitard
- artificial eutrophication
- removal of dissolved oxygen because of growth of algal blooms
- storm drain
- collects run off
- recharge zone
- the area of land from which the groundwater originates
- watershed
- the entire area of land that is drained by a river (drained basin)
- marsh peat
- organic matter from salt marsh
- sediment
- mineral or organic matter deposited by water, ice, or wind
- contour lines
- the isolines that connects points of equal elevation on topographic map
- detritus
- dead organic matter
- reservoir
- an artificial lake
- dissolved oxygen
- oxygen in water
- salinity
- measure of salt content in water
- organic matter
- dead animals...
- spartina
- hardy grass that lives in salt marsh
- permeable
- liquids can "flow through"