Water Stuff
The water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock.
What is Ground Water!
A usable stock or supply.
What is a Resource!
The edge where two tectonic plates meet.
What is Plate Boundaries or Tectonic Plate Boundaries!
Why is the San Joaquin Valley in California sinking?
What is overpumping of water!
A layer of underground rock that contains groundwater.
What is an Aquifer!
A resource that is unlikely to run out, capable of being replaced or restored as quickly as it is used.
What is Renewable or Renewable Resource!
Small solid materials, like sand, that are carried by air or water and settle at the bottom of bodies of water, such as on riverbeds or the ocean floor.
What is Sediment!
Rocks that form when minerals are deposited, usually in water, and then compacted or cemented into solid rock. They often show visible layers.
What is Sedimentary Rock!
The process of humans artificially watering land to help plant growth.
What is Irrigation!
A resource that is unable to be restored, replaced, or made new again once used.
What is a Nonrenewable Resource!
Material made of carbon that comes from plants, animals, and their waste products.
What is Organic Matter!
Rocks changed over a long period of time while massive amounts of pressure and heat are applied.
What is Metamorphic Rock!
The capability of a substance to allow fluids to flow through it.
What is Permeability!
Fuel (such as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the Earth from plant or animal remains.
What is a Fossil Fuel!
Of, or relating to, or based on a science that deals with the history of the Earth and its life especially as recorded in rocks.
What is Geologic!
An Example of a Mineral
What is Coal!
What is Copper!
What is Zinc!
What is aluminum!
What causes water contamination in the San Joaquin Valley?
What is Synthetic fertilizer runoff?
What is a high nitrate level!
A mineral-bearing rock that generally contains metal but can contain other valuable minerals, like gems.
What is Ore!
A natural process that forms and shapes the Earth's surface.
What is the Geoscience Process!
Rocks formed directly from volcanic activity.
What is Igneous Rock!