Chapter 10

What is the Greek word for water?

_____ is the process by which precipitation that has fallen on lanf trickles into three ground and becomes groundwater.

_____ spaces make up large portions of some of these materials.

The upper boundary of the zone of saturation is the _______.

Gravitational water that trickles _____ as a result of gravity.

What is zone saturation?

What is zone or aeration?

What is permeability?

What is an aquifer?

What is an aquiclude?

What are springs?

What is a hot spring?

What is a geyser?

Describe a cave.

What’s a sinkhole?

Estimates of “water” supplies are the result of a dynamic equilibrium between various factors.

Groundwater supplies can be “depleted”.

Sewage,landfills, and other water disposal sites can include a variety of “people”.

There are a number of ways by which “polluted” resources can be protected and restored.

Sometimes, polluted groundwater can be pumped out for “chemical” treatment on the surface.