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Fresh water
Term | Definition |
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Water cycle | The continuous |
Evaporation | Evaporation is a type of vaporization of a liquid that occurs from the surface of a liquid into a gaseous phase that is not saturated with the evaporating substance |
condensation | Takes place when water vapor cools and changes into water droplets that form clouds in the atmosphere. |
percipitation | Is Rain, snow, or hail that falls from clouds onto the earths land and oceans |
transpiration | The procces by which plants release water vapor into the air |
runoff | Is precipitation that flows over land into streams and rivers. This water later enters oceans |
percolation | Is the downward movement of water through pores and other spaces in soil due to gravity |
groundwater | Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock |
Water table | The upper surface of underground water the upper boundary of the zone of saturation |
aquifers body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater | body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater |
porosity | The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment the constisis of a open spaces |
permeability | The ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open spaces or pores. |
impermeabllity | Does not allow water or liquid to pass through it |
Artesian spring | A spring whose water flowed from a crack in the cap rock over the aquifer |
Well | A human made hole that is deeper than the level of the water table |
zone of aeration | Rainwater passes through the upper zone |
Zone of saturation | Farther down the water collects in an area |