chapeter27.3 Flashcards

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what percent of water on earth is salt water

A

97%

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2
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what percent of water on earth is fresh water

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3%

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3
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where is the majority of fresh water found

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in glaciers

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4
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where is the smaller percentage of freshwater found

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rivers lakes and ground water

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5
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what is precipitation

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when water vapor cools and condenses

rain

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6
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what is run off

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water running off land surfaces

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what is infiltration

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the Processes by witch water becomes ground water below the serface

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8
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what is transpiration

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when plants release release water vapor into the atmosphere through their leaves

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9
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what is condensation

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where water vapor Collide and become a water droplet

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what is the water cycle

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water on land then goes into the atmosphere then returns back to land

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11
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what is an unsaturated zone for groundwater storage

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pores area where water can easy pass through

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12
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what is a saturated zone for ground water storage

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where water compleatly fills pore space

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13
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what is a water table

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upper layer of the saturated zone

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14
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what dose it mean if sediment is permeable

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how easy the water passes through

more permeable = water passes through easly

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15
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what us an aquifer

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a rock unit that can transfer water through its poor space

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16
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what is the name of the great plains aquifer

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ogallala aquifer

17
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how many states dose the great plains aquifer run through

18
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what states

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Nebraska 
Colorado 
Kansas 
Texas 
New Mexico 
Wyoming 
Oklahoma 
South Dakota
19
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what is an aquitarde

A

keep water confined

20
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how are water springs formed

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where a water table natural meats the surface

21
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what is an artesian well

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when we drill into an pressurized aquifer

22
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what is a cone of depression

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the direction the water flows in direction down the well

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absolute dateining

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assigning an exact date (numeral age ) to an orgnizium

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relative dating

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putting things in proper order in time

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uniformiarianisim
states that laws of nature operate the same today as they have in the past
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principles of superposition
states that in an undisturbed sequence of sedimentary rock layers from youngest to oldest
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uniformity
gaps in the rock record during the during witch either erosion occurring or deposition was absent
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fossil
the remains or tracing of and orgnizium found in rock