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| water wasted for household uses |
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| water flowing or standing on the surface of earth, such as lakes or streams |
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| the process by which groundwater is absorbed into an aquifer |
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| the passage of water through a plant from the roots through the vascular system to the atomosphere |
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| the collected totallyof water in the ocean |
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| salty water, a salty solution |
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| a hot spring that erupts per iodical shooting hot water and steam into the air |
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| aplace where the water table meets the earth's surface and the groundwater seeps out on the surface |
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| a well that is drilled into an aquifer where the groundwater is under pressure |
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| the surface area above an aquifer where precipitation falls, and eventually perculatesdown into the porous rock of the aquifer |
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| highest level in an aquifer where the pores are full of water and it seperates the zone of saturation from the zone of aeration |
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| underground storage place for groundwater and it is often stored withen permeable rock |
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| the movement of water through porous rock and/or soil |
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| has connected pores and cracks that allows groundwater to flow through it |
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| a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water |
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| the tidal mouth of a river, where the tide meets the stream |
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| a substance or condition that contaminates air, water, or soil. Pollutants can be artificial substances, such as pesticides and PCBs, or naturally occurring substances, such as oil or carbon dioxide, that occur in harmful concentrations in a given environment. Heat transmitted to natural waterways through warm-water discharge from power plants and uncontained radioactivity from nuclear wastes are also considered pollutants |
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| the state or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed, combined with, or added |
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| the abilty og rock to have water and other fluid flow through it |
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| is away of measuring pore space in rock and soil |
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| water that flows across the earth's surface |
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| is contained in the open space of soil and rock |
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| a dranege place were water flows into a lake, stream, or river |
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| are lands that are always wet and control what plants and animals that live there |
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