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VOCAB PICTURES: CHANNEL: The bed of a stream, river, or any waterway HYDROSPHERE: The water on land and in the atmosphere PORE SPACES: Space in between sediment for groundwater to seep into RESERVOIR: A place, natural or artificial, where water is stored for use EROSIONAL: Being able to erode...possible to break down naturally SINKHOLE: A depressed area where waste and drainage are collected SUBTERRANEAN: Stupid hard word for "underground" PRECIPITATION: Falling matter from the atmosphere...i.e. rain, snow, other things GROUNDWATER: Water stored underground, recycled through precipitation EVAPORATE: To become a gas from a liquid

IMPERVIOUS: Impossible to pass through

BELT OF SOIL MOISTURE: The barrier between groundwater and soil

INFILTRATION: Moisture seeping through soil

TRANSPIRATION: The passage of water through the vascular system of a plant into the atmosphere

ZONE OF SATURATION: An area where the soil is completely filled with groundwater and can't accept anymore

WATER TABLE: A planar underground surface saturated with water

CAPILLARY FRINGE: The divider between the saturated and unsaturated zones

SURFACE TENSION: An elastic-like force that minimalizes the area of the surface

TOPOGRAPHY: A diagram showing elevation on a landscape

PERMEABILITY: How easily water can pass through a substance

GAINING STREAMS: Streams that are lower than the aquifer

LOSING STREAMS: Streams that are higher than the aquifer

SATURATED ZONE: Same thing as the zone of saturation. Look up.

VOIDS: Empty spaces.

PORE SPACES: Spaces through which water can get through in a material

VESICLES: Holes created by air bubbles escaping

POROSITY: The ability for a material to accept water

CAVITIES: Spaces in a material

SORTING: PERMEABILITY: The ability for water to pass through a material

TRANSMIT:

SPECIFIC RETENTION AND YIELD:

AQUITARD AND AQUIFERS:

SPRINGS:

ANNUAL RUNOFF:

DISCHARGE:

PERCHED WATER TABLE: A water table above sea level

HOT SPRINGS: Springs located above volcanic activity underground

THERMAL: Relating to heat

GEYSERS: Springs located directly above magma

WELL: A hole in the ground through which water is extracted

IRRIGATION: That farming thing....an artificial application of water to land, mainly for crops

FLUCTUATE: To change rapidly

DRAWDOWN: a lowering of water surface level

DEPRESSION: A sinking of the water table

CONE OF DEPRESSION: The place where the all water is concentrated

HYDRAULIC GRADIENT: The pressure that is occuring under the water table.

HETEROGENEOUS: (of a mixture) composed of different substances or the same substance in different phases, as solid ice and liquid water.