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= The Hydrologic Environment: Precipitation, Land use, and Water Resources =

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[|Forests to Faucets: Interactive Map from USFS] Water Links

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=Vocabulary:= 1. Planetary water 2. Earth 3. Mars 4. The hydrologic cycle 5. Natural reservoirs 6. Breakdown and distribution 7. Precipitation processes 8. Condensation 9. Acid rain, Acid clouds, Acid fog 10. Dew point 11. Types of precipitation 12. Convectional precipitation 13. Thermals 14. Latent heat and condensation 15. Thunderstorms 16. Flash floods 17. Geographic controls 18. Orographic precipitation 19. Prevailing winds 20. Temperature inversion 21. air pollution 22. Frontal/cyclonic precipitation 23. Polar front 24. Cold and warm front 25. Tornadoes 26. Blizzards 27. Convergent precipitation 28. Hurricanes 29. Origin and distribution 30. Storm surges 31. Coastal damage 32. Streamflow 33. Baseflow 34. Surface runoff 35. Stormflow 36. Watershed 37. Drainage network 38. Floodplain 39. Flood hazard 40. Causes and trends 41. Land-use influence 42. Flow constrictions 43. The American dilemma 44. Groundwater 45. Auqifer 46. Porosity 47. Recharge/Discharge 48. Safe auqifer yield 49. Saltwater intrusion 50. Wetlands, lakes and ponds 51. Water table 52. Natural impoundment 53, Water balance 54. Riverine wetland system 55. Habitat 56. Eradication 57. Infilling and eutrophication 58. Water use 59. Trends and rates 60. Consumptive 61. Nonconsumptive 62. Supplies and problems 63. Degrading 64. Dams and diversions 65. Water management 66. Redistribution tradition 67. Prior allocation 68. Riparian rights 69. Sustained use 70. Watershed management

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