CH 27.3 27.4

Question 1

Infiltration

Answer 1

The process where water enters earth and becomes ground water

Question 2

Water table

Answer 2

The level below the ground is saturated with water

Question 3

Aquifer

Answer 3

A body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit ground water

Question 4

Porosity

Answer 4

percentage of materials total volume that is pore space

Question 5

Absolute Dating

Answer 5

the process of determining an exact age on a specified chronology

Question 6

relative dating

Answer 6

the science of determining relative of past events without finding the absolute age

Question 7

super position and undisturbed sequence of rock layers youngest on top oldest on bottom

Answer 7

principle of superposition

Question 7

Gaps in the rock record during which erosion accured or deposition was absent

Answer 7

unconformity

Question 8

Fossil

Answer 8

the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or a mold or cast in rock

Question 9

What percentage of water on earth is salt water?

Answer 9

87 percent

Question 10

what percentage of water on earth is freshwater?

Answer 10

3 percent

Question 11

where is the majority of freshwater found?

Answer 11

glaciers

Question 12

Where is the smaller percentage found of freshwater found.

Answer 12

Lakes rivers groundwater

Question 13

What is precipitation?

Answer 13

when water vapor cools and condenses

Question 14

what is runoff?

Answer 14

When water runs off land surface

Question 15

What is infiltration?

Answer 15

when water enters earth and becomes groundwater

Question 16

What is transpiration?

Answer 16

plants release water vapor into the atmosphere through there leaves

Question 17

what is evaporation?

Answer 17

when water enters the atomophere as water vapor

Question 18

what is condensation

Answer 18

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

Question 19

what is the water cycle

Answer 19

water on land that goes to the atmosphere and back to land

Question 20

What is a unsaturated zone for groundwater storage

Answer 20

a poruous area where water easily passes through

Question 21

what is a saturated zone for ground water storage

Answer 21

beneath the unsaturated zone, where water completely, fills the pore space

Question 22

what is a water table

Answer 22

upper boundary of saturated zone

Question 23

what does it mean when its permeable

Answer 23

easier

Question 24

what is an aquifer

Answer 24

a rock unit that can transfer water through its pore space

Question 25

What is name of the great plains aquifer

Answer 25

is known as the ogallala aquifer

Question 26

how many states does the great plains aquifer run through

Answer 26

8 states the 8 states are south Dakota Wyoming Nebraska, Coloradp, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas

Question 27

What are the names of the states that the great plains aquifer run through

Question 28

What is an aquitar

Answer 28

keeps water confined

Question 29

how are water springs formed

Answer 29

form where the water table naturally meets earths surface

Question 30

What is artesian well

Answer 30

wells drilled into pressurized

Question 31

What is a cone of depression