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Def: A shaft in the ground that conns water oil or gas.
Sen: Wells are where some people have to get thier drinking water from.
Ex1: Deep hole
Ex2: Kitchen sink |
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104. Aquifer Depletion
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Def: long term water-level declines caused by sustained ground water pumping.
Sen: Its not good that we are having a decrase in our groundwater.
Ex1: Groundwater pumping
Ex2: Long term water level declines
Ex3: Salt water intrusion |
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105. Salt water intrusion
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Def: when salt water gets into fresh water.
Sen: Salt water intrusions are bad and unhealthy because our freshwater bcomes dirty when it is combined with ocean water.
Ex1: Saline water, sea water
Ex2: Fresh water |
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Def: A barrier designed to hold back water and raise its level.
Sen: A lot of water id helb by dams.
Ex1: The Hoover Dam
Ex2: A beaver |
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Def: The process of removing dated, and dangerous dams from river systems.
Sen: Dam removal is a very messy and dangerous process.
Ex1: Glines caynon dam removal
Ex2:Elwaha Dam removal |
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Def: It disturbs all the freshwater systems.
Sen: These are negative effects and can harm our drinking water.
Ex1: Agriculture
Ex2: Freshwater |
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| [image]110. Non-point source pollution |
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Def: You can see when the pollution's coming from.
Sen: I see no point source pollution whe I look inside a sewer.
Ex1: A sewer
Ex2: treatmnt plants
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| [image]111. Point source pollution |
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Def: You can't tell where the pollution is coming from
Sen: I can see the pollutiion but i do not know where it is coming from.
Ex1: sewage plants
Ex2: Smokestack factory |
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| [image]112. Primary waste waste treatment |
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Def: The process of removing suspended solid waste, and reduce its BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand).
Sen: This is a cleaning process.
Ex1: secondary waste water treatment
Ex2:Teriary waste water tratment |
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| [image]113. secondary waste water treatment |
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Def: The process to catch the dissolved organic matter as food.
Sen: This is getting all of the food out of it.
Ex1: Primary watse water treatment
Ex2:Tertiary watse water treatment |
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| [image]114. Tertiary waste water treatment |
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Def: When the nutrients are suspended.
Sen: This is the step where everything is finally removed and nthig else needs to be taken out.
Ex1: Primary waste water treatment
Ex2: Secondary waste water treatment |
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Def: Thick, soft, wet mud.
Sem: when i think of this i think of the red mushy clay that is sometomes outside.
Ex1: clay
Ex2: silt
Ex3: Loam |
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Def: the compactness of a substance.
Sen: density can be calculated using mass and volume.
Ex1: Mass
Ex2: Volume |
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| 9[image]5. Surfface Currents |
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Def: Water at the surface that is moved by the winds that bloe over top of it.
Sen: the winds blow about 400 meters about the surface currents.
Ex1: Coriolis effect
Ex:2: wind patterns |
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Def: The rising of seawater
Sen: Upwellings can be dangerous is you are out siming because you can get swalled in by the depth unexpectidly.
Ex1: Magma
Ex2:Liquid |
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| [image]97. Coriolis Effect |
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Def: A mass in a rotating system expirences a force that isperpendicular to the directio of motion.
Sen: The earth can expirence the Coriolis effect.
Ex1: An astroid coming towards earth.
Ex2: a person pusing a ball.
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| [image]98. Deep ocean current |
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Def: They aremade by density and temperature.
Sen: These also can be know as the oceans conveyor belt.
Ex1: Circulation
Ex2: currents |
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Def: The process in which water circulate between clouds,lakes, oceans, rivers, and the atmosphere.
Sen: Water from a nearby river is evaporated from the sunlight and goes to the clouds to being condesation then the clouds let go causing percipitation anf the rainfall goes back into a stream or lake that starts the process over.
Ex1: Evaporation
Ex2:Run-off |
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Def: Water thats held underground.
Sen: This ater is what a lot of communites drink.
Ex1: Well
Ex2: soil and rocks |
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| [image]101. Surface Water |
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Def: Water that is collected from the surface of the ground.
Sen: Surface water can be on or above the ground.
Ex1: puddle
Ex2: small lake |
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Water Table: Is the top level of Groundwater.
Permeable Layer: It is clay like and does not allow water to pass, but if so very slowly.
Impermable Layer: In this layer substances such as liquid and gases cant pass. but some are permeable t gas and not liquid.
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| [image]102b. Groundwater Cross Section |
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Confined Aquifer: It is an aquifer that is below the land surface that holds water.
Unconfined Aquifer: Whe its upper surface is open to the atmosphere.
Pumped well: Pumping and observing the aquifers.
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| [image]102c. Groundwater Cross Section |
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Definition
Artisian: A well trapping a confined aquifer.
Zone of saturation: A area in a aquifer below the table where all pores are saturated with water.
Zone of aeration: the zone between the surface and the water table with rock and soil.
Cone of depression: Zone aroud a well where aquifer is normally saturated, table dips down to a cone shape.
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