Objective Review
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- this well's sources rock is located between 2 impermeable layers, pumps water that contains dissolved minerals, and receives its water from a great distance
- artesian well
- wind, glaciers, water, and gravity
- sources of erosion
- primary source of beach sand weathering
- abrasion
- process of iron tuning into rust
- oxidation
- upper boundary of the zone of saturation
- water table
- process that causes caves, sinkholes, and caverns to form
- carbonation
- the primary product of weathering
- soil
- feature that occurs when the water table drops near a well
- cone of saturation
- physical breakdown of rock
- mechanical weathering
- dead decaying organic material
- leaching
- Zone where all of the pore spaces of a rock are filled with water
- Zone of saturation
- Sediment that remains in suspension the longest: even in still water
- clay
- source or storage are for groundwater
- aquifer
- Renews freshwater on earth
- water or hydrologic
- how freely water flows through a rock
- permeability
- 3% of earth water
- freshwater
- zone where all of the pore spaces are filled with air
- zone of aeration