Note about vocabulary page: These words have been highlighted as vocabulary words. A class vocabulary list can be made of other unfamiliar words. A suggestion would be to post a list in the classroom.
Air Quality: The amount of pollutants in the air.
Compass: An instrument that usually has a red needle, which is always pointing towards the earth's magnetic north pole. A compass is used to measure direction.
Creek: A small stream, often a tributary to a river.
Crest line: The top edge of the falls.
Crest: The top of something as a wave or peak.
Cubic feet per second: The rate of discharge that represents a volume of 1 cubic foot passing a given point during 1 second.
Current stage: The present level of the body of water.
Deposit minerals: The build up of minerals left by flowing water.
Discharge: The volume of fluid that passes a given point within a given period of time.
Distance: The measurement between two points.
Essential: Something that is necessary.
Flood Threshold: Level at which the body of water floods.
Great Lakes: Five large lakes between the United States and Canadian border; Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron.
Hydro-electric: Electricity generated by the energy of running water.
Hydropower: The energy that comes from water.
Kinetic energy: Energy that is in motion.
Latitude: Imaginary lines that form circles around the globe. They measure how far north or south a location is from the equator.
Longitude: Imaginary lines that form circles around the globe. These lines intersect the north and south pole. They measure how far east or west a location is from the prime meridian(in Greenwich,England).
Navigable: Deep or wide enough to provide passage through.
Potential energy: Energy an object has because of its position and mass.
Precipitation: Amount of rain, snow, sleet, etc.
Rapids: An extremely fast moving part of a river.
Realtime data: Information collected off the internet showing current information.
Sediments: Materials that settle to the bottom of a liquid.
Strait: A narrow passage of water joining two larger bodies of water.
Stream flow: The discharge that occurs in a natural channel.
Stream: 1. A steady flow of water. 2. A small body of flowing water.
Talus: The rocks that form at the bottom of a waterfall.
Tributary: A river or stream that flows into a larger one.
Ultraviolet Index (UVI): How strong the sun's rays are and how the skin responds to those rays.
Work: When force causes something to move over a distance.
Work : Distance X Force = Work
Weather: Changes
in the air surrounding the Earth.
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