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science and rocks and water and cooliness
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Science
Post-Graduate
01/30/2008

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precipitaton
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when a cloud makes a substance like rain and it reaches the earths surface like cnow sleet hail
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water table
Definition
is on top of the saturated zone or depth of the groundwater in an aquifer
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watershed
Definition
the area of land were water is supplyed for a river system
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condensation
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when a gas like water vapor get shanged to a liquid like water
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saturated zone
Definition
a layer of rock were all of its pores and cracks are filled with water
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groundwater
Definition
water that is under neath the ground and seeps through the cracks of rock or dirt
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aquifer
Definition
a layer were water is held
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transpiration
Definition
when leaves of a plant give off water vapor
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water vapor
Definition
the invisible gaseous form of water
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permeable
Definition
when water sleeps throught soil or rock easily like sand.
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evaporation
Definition
when a liquid turns to a gass
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impermeable
Definition
when water does not pass throught rock or soil easily, like clay
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