Science Vocab

2. Water on land that seeps into the ground. It also flows downhill through soil and rock
5. A geological formation with holes or small pore spaces within porous materials such as rocks,soil etc. that can hold water or permit water movement.
6. Means a geological which has structures or textures that hold water or permit appreciate water movement in between them.
9. In a solution, a measure of the amount of dissolved substance contained in a specific volume of liquid.
12. A saturated, low permeability earth material can restrict movement of groundwater and/or it may be able to store groundwater.
13. Groundwater can be extracted from underground layers or water bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or gravel, sand or silt.

1. A body of contaminated groundwater or stream flowing from a specific source.
3. Compacted layers of clay,silt or rock that act like a barrier for groundwater to flow underground.These Earth materials also limit and direct the surface water which seeps down and replenishes aquifers.
4. The ease with which a fluid can pass through a porous material.
7. Not allowing fluids to pass through a material.
8. A substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals.
10. To make a substance unfit for use by adding something harmful or unpleasant (Ex.) The water is contaminated with chemicals.
11. The saturated zone of the aquifer that interacts with the Earths surface. This saturated zone is seasonal.