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   What is Evaporation and Transpiration?

• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8i.html
• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8j.html

   What is Precipitation? 

• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8f.html

    Interception, Stemflow, Canopy Drip, and Throughfall

• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8k.html

   What is Runoff ?

• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8n.html

   What is "water infiltration" ?

• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8l.html

   How does water Underground move ?

• http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8m.html

Resources

   Streams and Rivers

• Real-time Streamflow Data (USGS)
  • http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt/ 
  • Local Streamflow into the Western Mojave Desert
    • Mojave River @ the Lower Narrows
    • Mojave River @ Afton Canyon
    • Mescal Creek @ N. Pinon Hills
    • Big Rock Creek @ Valyermo

Activities

   Streams

• Aquatic Ecosystems ? Rivers and Streams
• Stream Monitoring

   Water Filtration

• Interactive Water Filtration Activity (EPA)
  • http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_filtration.html

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