Ground Water And Rivers

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a closed system
where water is not gained or lost, only transferred from one form to another, and from one place to another.

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The hydrologic cycle

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Transpiration

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process of plants removing water from the soil and passing it through their leaves before releasing it to the atmosphere

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Interception

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where incoming precipitation strikes ground cover

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water that gets intercepted and flows down a stem to the ground

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Stem Flow

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Throughfall

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water that drips off of the plants or misses the plants all together and reaches the Earth’s surface.

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water that continues to move down through the soil column after infiltration

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percolation

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When water infiltrates the surface and fills 100 % of the pore space of the upper most surface area, the zone is said to have reached .....

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field capacity

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water can travel a long way underground because of downward pressing forces, this is called...

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the hydrostatic head

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determines the amount of water that can be stored in a mass of rock or sediment

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porosity

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This influences the rate at which water can move through the earths material...

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permeability

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when you pump water out of wells, this causes a “cone of depression” which causes all of the water to be pulled into the deeper well. this is called a..

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drawdown