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Capillary action, from USGS Water Science for Schools. Even if you've never heard of capillary action, it is still important in your life.

Capillary action, from USGS Water Science for Schools

Capillary action is important for moving water (and all of the things that are dissolved in it) around. It is defined as the movement of water within the spaces of a porous material due to the forces of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension. Capillary action seen as water climbs to different levels in glass tubes of different diameters. Www.need.org/needpdf/Catalog.pdf. JetStream - An Online School for Weather. Ice continued to cling to the Great Lakes in mid-March, 2014.

JetStream - An Online School for Weather

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASAs Aqua satellite flew over the region on and captured a false-color image of the icy scene on March 18. As of March 17, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 82.8 % of the Great Lakes remained ice-covered.