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- 4. The ratio of the volume of water a rock or soil will yield by gravity drainage to the volume of the rock or soil.
- 5. Pertaining to a substance having identical characteristics everywhere.
- 6. The property of a fluid describing its resistance to flow.
- 7. A graph that shows some property of ground water or surface water as a function of time.
- 10. The change in total head with a change in distance in a given direction.
- 11. An aquifer in which there are no confing beds between the zone of saturation and the surface.
- 13. The sum of the process by which water passes from the liquid to the vapor state and the process by which plants give off water vapor through their leaves.
- 14. An equation that be used to compute the quantity of water flowing through an aquifer
- 17. A surface that represents the level to which water will rise in tightly cased wells.
- 20. An apparent velocity calculated from Darcy's law; represents the flow rate at which water flow in an aquifer if the aquifer were an open conduit.
- 22. A device placed across a stream and used to measure the discharge by having the water flow over a specifically designed spillway.
- 23. A body of material of low hydraulic conducitivy that is stratigraphically adjacent to one or more aquifers.
- 25. Rock or sediment in a formation, group of formations, or a part of a formation that is saturated and sufficiently permeable.
- 27. An aquifer that is overlain by a confining bed.
- 28. The water in a stream that comes from effluent ground water. It sustains the stream during periods of no precipitation.
- 32. A nonpumping well, generally of small diameter, that is used to measure the elevation of the water table of potentiometric surface.
- 34. Pertaining to the relative ease with which a porous medium can transmit a liquid under a hydraulic gradient. It is a material property independent of the fluid properties.
- 35. The circulation of water from the sea to the atmosphere to the and land and back to the sea.
- 36. The parameter that controls the amount of volumetric strain that occurs in response to a change In pressure.
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- 1. The condition under which one of more of the hydraulic properties of an aquifer vary according to the direction of flow.
- 2. The volume of water an aquifer releases from or takes into storage per unit surface area or the aquifer per unit change in head.
- 3. Pertaining to a substance having different characteristics in different locations.
- 8. A coefficient of proportionality describing the rate at which water can move through a medium. Dependent upon density and fluid viscosity.
- 9. A laboratory device used to measure the permeability and hydraulic conductivity of a soil or rock sample.
- 12. The zone between the land surface and the water table.
- 15. The volume of ground water that an aquifer absorbs or expels from a unit volume when the pressure head decreases or increases by a unit amount.
- 16. The declining rate of discharge of a stream fed only by baseflow for an extended period.
- 18. The weight of a substance per unit volume.
- 19. A region in the unsaturated zone where the soil may be locally saturated because it overlies a low-permeability unit.
- 21. The volume of the void spaces through which water or other fluids can travel in a rock or sediment divinded by the total volume of the rock or sediment.
- 24. The amount of stress felt by a bulk rock or sediment taking into account the fluid pressure.
- 26. Another term for specific discharge.
- 29. The surface in an unconfined aquifer at which the water pressure is atmospheric. It can be measured by installing shallow wells extending into the zone of saturation.
- 30. The ratio of the volume of void spaces in a rock or sediment to the total volume of the rock or sediment.
- 31. The flow of water over a land surface due to direct precipitation. It generally occurs when the precipitation rate exceeds the infiltration capacity.
- 33. The volume of water flowing in a stream or through an aquifer past a specific point in a given period of time.