Term
|
Definition
| A process of something being saturated |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| objects that can pollute the enviroment |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Te wide part of a river where it nears the sea |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Water that is polluted with pollutants |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The biggest aquifer in Texas |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| perventing especially liquids to pass |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The movement of water through porous rock and/or soil |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Underground storage place for ground water.It is offen stored within permeable rock |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| were all the water flows to one source |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A well that is drilled into an aquifer where the groundwater is under pressure |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A place where the water table meets the earth's surface, and groundwater seeps out on the surface. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the collected totality of water in the ocean |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (part of a water shed)Land that is naturally wet all the time and controls plants and animals |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The highest level in an aquifer where the pores are full of water.Seperates the zoneof saturation from the zone of aeration |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Fourth step in water treatment.Remaining at the top t\of the tank after the sediments have settled out is pumped through a filter to remove unsettled peices |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The surface area above an aqufier where precipitation falls,and eventrually fals down into the water shed |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Water flowing or standing on the surface of the earth |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The passage way of water though a plant from the roots throught the vascular system to the atmosphere |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Porsity is a way a measuring pore spaces in soil and rock |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| First step in water treatment.Air is circulated through water to remove gases and brings water into contact with the atmosphere |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Groundwater is contained in the open spaces (pores) of soil and rock |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Water that flows across the earth's surface |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the ability or rock/soil to have wateer and other fluids flow through it.Permeable rock has conected pores and cracks that allows groundwater to flow through it. |
|
|
