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Question 1

what is deflation?

Answer 1

the removal of small particles and leaving heavier particlesbehind

Question 2

what do the shapes and sizes due to

Question 3

what 3 things due to wind causes

Answer 3

wind speed

Question 4

what percent of water on earth is salt water?

Answer 4

97%

Question 5

what percent of water on earth is salt water?

Answer 5

3%

Question 6

where is the majority of freshwater found?in glaciers

Question 7

where is the smaller percent of freshwater found?

Answer 7

rivers,lakes,and stored as ground water

Question 8

what is precipitation?

Answer 8

when water vapor in the air cools and condences

Question 9

what is runoff?

Answer 9

water runs off the land surface

Question 10

what is infiltration?

Answer 10

water enters the earths surface and becomes groundwater below the surface?

Question 11

what is transpiration?when plants realese water vapor into the atmosphere through their leaves.

Question 12

what is evaporation?

Answer 12

when water enters the atmosphere as water vapor

Question 13

what is condensation?

Answer 13

water vapor collides with other water vapor molucles to form water droplets

Question 14

what is the water cycle?

Answer 14

water on the land goes into the atmosphere then eventually comes back to the land

Question 15

what is an unsaturated zone for ground water storage?

Answer 15

a porous area where water easily passes through

Question 16

what is a saturated zone for groundwater storage?

Answer 16

beneath the unsaturated zone,where water completly fills up the porespace

Question 17

what is a water table?

Answer 17

the upper boundary of the saturated zone the more permeable the material is the easier water can infiltrate through the ground

Question 18

what does it mean if sediment is permeable?

Question 19

what is an aquifer?

Answer 19

a rock unit that can transfer water through its pore spaces

Question 20

what is the name of the great plains aquifer?

Answer 20

ogallala aquifer

Question 21

how many states does the great plains aquifer run through?

Answer 21

8 states

Question 22

what are the names of the states that great plains aquifer runs through?

Answer 22

south dakota,wyoming,nebraska,colorado,kansas,oklahoma,new mexico,and texas

Question 23

what is an aquitard?

Answer 23

layer of sediment that does not allow water to pass through it at all.

Question 24

how are water springs formed?

Answer 24

where the water table naturally meets earths surface

Question 25

what is an artesian well?

Answer 25

wells drilled into prerssured aquifers

Question 26

what is a cone of depression?