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ES_CH13
Environmental Science: Chapter 13 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Groundwater | The water in the spaces in the ground |
| Zone of Saturation | The places in the zone that are completely filled with water |
| Water Table | The top of the groundwater zone |
| Aquifers | Underground caverns and porous layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock through which groundwater flows |
| Surface Water | The freshwater from precipitation and snowmelt that flows across the earth's land surface and into rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and oceans |
| Surface Runoff | Precipitation that does not infiltrate the ground or return to the atmosphere by evaporation |
| Watershed | The land form which surface water drains into a particular river, lake, wetlands, or other body of water |
| Reliable Surface Runoff | The amount of surface runoff that we can generally count on as a source of freshwater from year to year |
| Drought | A prolonged period in which precipitation is at least 70% lower and evaporation is higher than normal in an area that is normally not dry |
| Dam | A structure built across a river to control the river's water flow |
| Reservoir | The artificial lake resulting from the damming of a river |
| Floodplain | The area next to a stream that fills with water when the stream floods |
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