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Geography Terms Test

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

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