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| water that flows underground |
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| the scientific name for an air space, when you have several pores collected together, they create a passageway |
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| any earth material in which a liquid can pass through- there are different degrees of permeability |
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| a degree to which a material has pores |
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| a certain number of unit a in a certain number of unit B |
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| units o measure for contamination in ground water |
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| Part per billion/trillion |
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| still the number of parts of a substance per m,b,t, parts of the whole. The billion and trillion are used to look at a larger quantity of parts |
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| the mistake(s) in an experiment |
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| top soil- comes in contact with air, air goes into the ground, and fills up some of the pores, another part of the topsoil is water. |
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- water keeps coming down until it hits an impermeable layer
- then it has no where to go but up, so the water keeps building up and up
- pores in that area where the water is building up, are saturated with water, there is no space for air to go
- upper part of zone of saturation is called the water table, where the water is no longer just saturating the soil, but now it has created a pool of water |
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| Above the Permeable Layer when the ground is saturated, there is a pool of water above |
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| A layer of ground that water can not pass through, and not because there are no pores, but because the pores are not connected well |
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| a layer of the ground that water can absorb water |
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| a layer of the ground that retards water |
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| decaying litter, decaying organic matter, |
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| made up of sand sized particles of quartz and feldspar- cemented together with clay, because of the mix, pores and air spaces are created- permeable |
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| a mass of things coming together. Pebble sized stones of different sizes, again cemented together. Stuff: Granite, gneiss (more compacted form of granite), quartz, feldspar |
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| impermeable rock that is a really thick layer |
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| an impermeable rock that is usually under lakes |
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| is a measurement of substances in water besides water molecules |
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| The Ph of water is a measurement of how acidic or basic it is, on a scale of 0-14. Pure water is neutral, meaning it is neither acid or a base, and has a Ph of 7, the lower the number, the more acidic it is |
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| The level of two minerals-calcium and magnesium. Hard water has more minerals, makes less suds with soap, and Soft water has less minerals, and takes less detergent to clean clothes |
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| the among of one substance in a certain volume of another substance. |
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| the process of passing water through a series of screens that allows the water through, but not larger solid particles. |
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| sticky particals that causes water molecules to stick to each other and fall to the bottom of a basin |
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| the process of Flocs making water stick to each other |
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| Stuff that goes down our drain, and different kinds of wastes in it are called Sewage |
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| The stuff that is taken out of sewage, when treated with heat and chemicals it can be used as fertilizer |
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| An underground tank containing bacteria that treats wastewater as it passes through. |
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| wide spread contamination |
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| Point Source spread over time |
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| one central location of contamination- may |
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| a bunch of wells close together |
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| relatively speaking: you have wells in a straight line |
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| Distributed (more or less) over the map |
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