Terms to Study for Geography
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| Groundwater | Water held below the water table in an aquifer
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| Aquifer | a permeable rock which is capable of holding and transmitting groundwater
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| Aquitard | An impermeable layer of rock incapable of transmitting economic quantities of water
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| Live Aquifer | An aquifer which is replenished regularly by water inputs from the recharge surface area
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| Fossil Aquifer | Aquifers which do not receive regular recharge due to to little precipitation in the area
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| Abstraction | The removal of water from rivers, lakes and groundwater for human use
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| Infiltration | The movement of water from rain or snow-melt into the soil
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| Water Table | The upper surface of the zone of saturation in a permeable rock
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| Artesian Basin | A Basin Structure containing water under hydrostatic pressure in a aquifer
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| Cone of Depression | An area below or around a well, where the water table has been permanently lowered due to over abstraction of that well
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| Natural Recharge | The Filling of Groundwater aquifers by rain or snow-melt percolating into the ground and saturating porous rocks
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| Artificial Recharge | Adding Water to an aquifer through human effort
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| Unconfined Aquifer | An aquifer not situated below and aquitard with the same hydrostatic pressure as the atmosphere
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| Confined Aquifer | An aquifer situated below an aquitard, experiencing high hydrostatic pressure
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| Hydrostatic Pressure | The Fluid Pressure exerted by the underlying column of water in a body of water when at rest
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| Pontentiometric surface | The level to which water will rise in an aquifer
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