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4. Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock. It is stored in and moves slowly through geologic formations of soil
7. the tension of the surface film of a liquid caused by the attraction of the particles in the surface layer by the bulk of the liquid, which tends to minimize surface area.
8. a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
9. Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another. The forces that cause adhesion and cohesion can be divided into several types
11. the process of removing salt from seawater.
15. to enter or become established in gradually
16. the degree of compactness of a substance

1. A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
2. all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
3. the state or quality of a material or membrane that causes it to allow liquids or gases to pass through it.
5. of or found in fresh water; not of the sea.
6. a further competition, election, race, etc., after a tie or inconclusive result.
10. the property of having poles or being polar.
12. water strongly impregnated with salt.
13. A solvent is a substance that dissolves a solute, resulting in a solution. A solvent is usually a liquid but can also be a solid, a gas, or a supercritical fluid.
14. Cohesion or cohesive attraction or cohesive force is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive