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Groundwater RD
water cycle vocab
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6th Grade
04/28/2011

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wet lands
Definition
are the lands that are wet and control what plants and animals that live there
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water shed
Definition
a dranage that all water flows to like a lake or river
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ground water
Definition
is the containdd in the open space of soil and rock
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run off
Definition
the water that flows across the earths surface
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porosity
Definition
is a way of measuering pore space in soil and rock
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permability
Definition
the abillity of rock and soil to have water and other fluis flow through it
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permeable
Definition
rock that has conected pores and cracks that allows ground water to flow through it
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percolation
Definition
the movement of water through porous rock and soil
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aquafier
Definition
under ground storage place for ground water it is often stored within permeable rock
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water table
Definition
the highest levelin an aquaferwhere the pores are full of water whitch seperates the zone of saturation from the zone of aeriation
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reacharge zone
Definition
the surface area obove the aquafier where percipitation falls and eventualy percolates down into the poros rock of the aquafier
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arteastion well
Definition
a well that is drilled into a aquifier where the gournd water is under pressure
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arteation spring
Definition
a place where the water table meets the earth
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gyser
Definition
a hot spring that erupts perieodicly shoting hot water and steam into the air
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podible
Definition
fit to drink
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nonpodiebl
Definition
not fit to drink
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transreation
Definition
the passage of water through plant through the root through the vascular system and to the atmospher
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recharge
Definition
the process of wich the grond water is obsorbed through and into the aquafier
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surface water
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is water flowing or streming on the surface of the earth such as lakes streams or rivers
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waste water
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is water that has bin prevuoghsly used
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aetration
Definition
the first ster in water treatment when air is ciurculatedthrough the water to reamove smelling gasses and for looks also to bring the water to the atmospher
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filtration
Definition
the fourth ster in water treatment water reamaining at the top of the tank after the sediments have setteled out is pummped through a fillter to reamove any unsettaled sediments
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