| Aeolian Loess:
| Deposit of wind driven fine particles
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| Acidophilous:
| Preferring or thriving in a relatively acid environment
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| Alkaliphilous:
| Preferring or thriving in a relatively alkaline environment
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| Amorphous:
| Not composed of crystals in a physical structure
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| Anions:
| Negatively charged element or compound
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| Anthropogenic:
| Related to human activities
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| BOD:
| Biological Oxygen Demand
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| Cations:
| Positively charged element or compound
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| CCIW:
| Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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| COD:
| Chemical Oxygen Demand
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| Diatom:
| Unicellular algae with silicified cell walls
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| Endorheic:
| Interior drainage, flow does not go to the ocean
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| Eutrophication:
| High degree of biological nutrition
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| Evapotranspiration:
| Moisture loss to the atmosphere from plants by transpiration and evaporation
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| GEMS:
| Global Environment Monitoring System
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| Macrophytes:
| Rooted aquatic plants
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| Mesotrophic:
| Medium degree of biological nutrition
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| Orography:
| Relating to the relief features of mountains
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| Phytoplankton:
| Microscopic and macroscopic floating or drifting plant life including algae
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| RAISON:
| Computer software package used in GEMS/WATER
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| TDS:
| Total Dissolved Solids (sum of major ions and dissolved silica)
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| Thermocline:
| Transition zone of rapid temperature change
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| TSS:
| Total Suspended Solids
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| Turbidity:
| Cloudiness of a liquid caused by suspended matter
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| Weathering:
| Physical and chemical breakdown of rocks due to natural processes
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| WHO:
| World Health Organization
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