| Term | Definition |
|---|
| permeable | of a material or membrane allowing liquids or fluids to pass through it. |
| impermeable | not allowing fluid to pass through |
| Zone of saturation | A subsurface zone in which water fills the interstices and is under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure. Also known as phreatic zone; saturated zone. |
| Zone of Aeration | Zone immediately below ground surface, in which openings partially filled with air and partially with water trapped by molecular attraction. |
| Water table | the level below which the ground is saturated with water |
| Lime stone | a hard sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate or dolomite, used as building material and in the making of cement |
| sink holes | a cavity in the ground in limestone bedrock, caused by water erosion and providing a route for surface water to disappear underground |
| hard water | water that contains magnesium, calcium, or iron salts and therefore forms a soap lather with difficulty. |
| soft water | Water containing little or no dissolved salts of calcium or magnesium, especially water containing less than 85.5 parts per million of calcium carbonate. |
| solvent | able to dissolve other substances |
| continental glaciers | A continental glacier is a huge mass of ice that covers a lot of land near the Arctic or Antarctic polar regions. |
| Valley glaciers | s a glacier moves down the valley it scrapes along the sides and bottom of the valley that is already there. It picks up boulders and sediments and takes them down the mountain. Valley glaciers cause a lot of damage to the land that it passes over and makes many new landforms. |
| surface runoff | Overland flow of excess water (with or without accumulated contaminants) that cannot be absorbed by the ground as infiltration. |
| Precipitation | chemistry the action or process of precipitating a substance from a solution. |
| condensation | water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it. |
| transpiration | the passage of water through a plant from the roots through the vascular system to the atmosphere. |
| evaporation | to draw moisture from, as by heating, leaving only the dry solid portion. |
| ground water | he water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells. |
| surface water | Water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater. |
| aquifer | An underground bed or layer of earth, gravel, or porous stone that yields water. |
| karst system | landscape underlain by limestone that has been eroded by dissolution, producing ridges, towers, fissures, sinkholes, and other characteristic land forms. |
| blue springs | a city in west central Missouri, east of Kansas City. |
| reservoirs | a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply. |
| domestic | of or relating to the running of a home or to family relations. |
| flood irrigation | The application of irrigation water where the entire surface of the soil is covered by a sheet of water, called Controlled Flooding when water is impounded or the flow directed by border dikes, ridges, or ditches. |
| Drip irrigation | drip irrigation ... Irrigation using a tape or pipe with small holes that releases water near the roots of plants and eliminates runoff. ... Translations of "drip irrigation": |
| Center pivot system | method of irrigation, used mainly in the western U.S., in which water is dispersed through a long, segmented arm that revolves about a deep well and covers a circular area from a quarter of a mile to a mile in diameter. |
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