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| the second largest reserve of fresh water which acconts for 22% of the earth's fresh water. |
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| when water continually moves from the continents to the oceans, into the atmosphere, and is carried back to the continents. |
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| when plants absorb water from the ground and some of it's water escapes back into the air |
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| when water continues downward through pores, cracks, and other spaces between rock particles |
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| rain or other sorces of water fall down to earth |
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| upper seface of the ground water resivior, it's shape is irregular |
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| a place usually on a hillside, where water comes from the ground continuously |
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| the rock and soil above the water table, in which some are avalible spaces between rock particles filled with air instead of water. |
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| the ground below the water table, in which every avalible space is filled with water. |
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| a way water has worked it's way upward |
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| the area where capillary action takes place. |
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| many holes through out it's interior |
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| the ability to hold ground water, or how easily it allows water to pass through. |
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| material that doesn't permit water to flow through it, no matter how porous it may be |
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| material that transmits water easily, it contains many open spaces that are connected so that water can flow through them. |
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| the surface that collects after an impermeable rock layer |
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| a kind of unassisted water flow |
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| a cone shaped lowering of the water table that is deepest at the well |
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| an area that resupplies groundwater. |
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| a substance that dissolves something else |
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| water with high levels of dissolved minerals |
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| naturally low in calcium and magnesium compounds. |
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| scientist who study caves |
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| any stone formed by dripping water |
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| cave drip stone and flowstone that makes unusual shapes |
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| the largest underground caves that are fromed by erosion of great undergroundstreams flowing through soluble rock |
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| deposited material from disolved limestone |
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| icicle like projections that hang downward from the ceiling. |
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| fine tubular structures in which cacite precipitation leaves the center hollow, and is eventually filled in to form stalacgtites |
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| icicle like projections that project downward from the ceiling |
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| when a stalagtite meets a stalagmite |
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| thin sheets of flowstone hanging from the ceiling or inclined walls |
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| striped ribbons of flowstone |
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| flat deposites of calcite that grew out from rock supports at the surface of standing water some time in the past. |
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| a person who explores caves for recreation |
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| chemical erosion of a rock that can produce a distinctive landscape. |
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| when sink holes fill with water |
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| when most of a cave colapses except for a short section |
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| steepage from a surface stream can erode a joint in the underlying rock |
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| the bed that a stream abandoned |
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| cave stream erodes a hole in the side of a cave that opens in a hillside. |
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| a country side is littered with tall towerlike hills that are eroded remnats of the original limestone strata. |
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