Chapter 5 - Water Vocabulary

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Environmental Science - Holt, Rinhart and Winston, 2000

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aquifer

underground rock formations that hold large amounts of groundwater; usually consist of rocks, sand, and gravel with a lot of air spaces in which water can accumulate - they recieve water that percolates down from the surface in a very slow process

artificial eutrophication

eutrophication caused by humans when too much inorganic plant nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen get into the water from sewage and fertilizer runoff