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Water Cycle
Groundwater
Watersheds
Aquifers
CT Groundwater
100
Three main steps of the water cycle
What precipitation, evaporation, and condensation?
100
Material that water can pass through
What is permeable?
100
Water put back into the ground
What is recharge?
100
Underground layer that can hold water
What is an aquifer?
100
A depression filled with plants that collects runoff
What is a rain garden?
200
Process in which a liquid turns to a gas
What is evaporation?
200
Ground that cannot hold any more water
What is saturated?
200
Another name for a watershed
What is a drainage basin?
200
Water needs to be pumped out of one
What is a well?
200
Law created in 1974 to protect water used by the public
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
300
Rain, snow, sleet, hail
What are forms of precipitation
300
Amount of water that ground can hold
What is porosity?
300
Place that water drains into
What is a watershed?
300
You have this if the water table goes below a drilled pipe
What is a dry well?
300
Percent of CT groundwater that is potable
What is 90%
400
Water evaporating from plants
What is transpiration?
400
Made of solid rock
What is impermeable layer?
400
Ridges or hills that seperate watersheds
What are drainage divides?
400
Well in which water comes out all by itself
What is an artesian well?
400
Government agency that monitors groundwater
What is the DEP?
500
Movement of water along the Earth's surface
What is runoff?
500
Percent of freshwater found underground
What is 32%?
500
CT watershed starts here
What is Vermont?
500
An aquifer that is close to the surface
What is a spring?
500
CT's two major types of aquifers
What are stratified drift and bedrock aquifers