what is a water table?
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yes, it is the layer underground where the water that precipitates through the groundrock reaches. thats where wells tap from. it normally collects on a layer of nonporous rock which can be a varying depths below the ground we walk on.
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A type of engineer who specializes in the movement and transport (both natural and man made) of water. They can do anything from build dams to city sewers or movement of other liquids besides water in a plant setting.Somebody who likes to get wet a lot. Hydrologist ia a science dealing with their properties, distribution, and circulation of water an and below the earth's surface and in the atmosphere.
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Ice water.  Ice is the solid phase and the water is the liquid phase.
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A well is a man-made place for getting water from the earth.  A spring is a natural place where underground water comes to the surface
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_sprite
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Water_cycle.png
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Simple answer?\n\nC - Groundwater\n\nWater and air fill the spaces down to the zone of saturation, i.e. the water table, though its not really a flat surface in the ground. As one goes deeper, saltwater encroaches becoming brines.\n\nIn some areas where the geology is right and structural traps exist in the formations, oil and natural gas can occupy fractures and pore spaces.
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I've never heard of any such thing, and neither "fluffy waterballs" nor "fluffy water balls" returns a single result on Google.  ("Waterballs" and "water balls" do, but the results are mostly about snow globes and such.)  The only "balls" of water commonly known to hit the ground are raindrops.\n\nThat being said, there's no reason to assume that water would exist on any particular planet.
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Water potential is the tendency of water to move from one place to another. It is typically measured in units of atmospheric pressure: pascals or pounds force per square inch or bars or dynes per square centimeter. It is a measure of the ability of a solution to absorb water by osmosis.
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A tsunami is a wall of water generated by an underwater earth-quake. It is not related to the atmosphere in any way, and has no impact on climate in any way.
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Water Systems:\n\nhttp://www.ec.gc.ca/water/images/nature/prop/a2f2e.jpg\n\n95% of Earth's water is Salt Water leaving 5% as Fresh Water.  Nearly all of the Fresh water is in the form of Ice or underground.\n\nThis site appears to have a lot of data as well as activities for learning.\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/bowermanb/water.html
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The term phreatic is used in geology to refer to matters relating to underground water below the water table (the word originates from the Greek phrear, phreat- meaning "well" or "spring"). "Phreatic surface" is a synonym for "water table."\n\nThe phreatic zone is the layer(s) of soil or rock below the water table in which voids are permanently saturated with groundwater, as opposed to the higher vadose zone in which the pore spaces are not completely filled with water.\n\nCertain types of extremely violent volcanic eruptions can result from the interaction of ground water and magma; these are termed phreatic eruptions.\n\nPhreatic eruptions are steam-driven explosions that occur when water beneath the ground or on the surface is heated by magma, lava, hot rocks, or new volcanic deposits (for example, tephra and pyroclastic-flow deposits). The intense heat of such material (as high as 1,170° C for basaltic lava) may cause water to boil and flash to steam, thereby generating an explosion of steam, water, ash, blocks, and bombs.
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Seriously? Too many to list. Water is, whether you notice or not, a staple of everyday life; not just in the sense that we drink it, but we use it for everything. Water is, first and foremost, the main ingredient in every non-alcoholic drink known to man. As for tap water, it's used for bathing, washing clothes, cars, pets and other objects and for providing water for sprinkler systems which keep our plants alive. As for recreation, people can entertain themselves in almost any sort of body of water; beaches, lakes water parks and even puddles can serve as the basis for a number of recreational activities. In factories and industrial settings, water is used to power the steam engines that run in some plants, as well as cool off the combustion engines used in high-grade machinery and cars. Water is even used in nuclear reactors as a way of forming the high-pressure steam needed to move the turbines in the reactors. And don't forget hydroelectric power.
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Water is H2O. Two hydrogen and one oxygen. Water is the universal solvent because it mixes well with most substances. Water is the most common and mysterious substances on earth. Water is suppose to be a gas ,but it's a liquid at room temperature. Water has a negative side (oxygen) and a positive side (hydrogen). This is another reason why water is the universal solvent it can dissolve just about any solute because the H and O are at 102o angel which means it can pick up most solutes. 97% of the earth's water is salt water will only less than 3% is drinkable. 70% of the earth's animals live in salt water. All animals need water.
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True. water is essential for the transport of nutrients within them, since it is the "universal solvent".
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Its a solid. Its actually a packed bed of solid particles, but its a solid. You can make it behave like a liquid by buddling gas through it within certain limits, but its still a solid.\n\nthe definitions of solid and liquid are :\n\nA solid deforms by a finite amount proprtional to the stress placed upon it.\n\nA liquid deforms constantly undes stress.\n\nExample : \n\nif you put a 1 lb weight on a table, the top of the table will deform slighly. You amy not see it, but if you make it 100 lbs you might even see the mark after you take it off. (Dont try this at home, your mother / life partner will kill you). However, it won't go right through the table (unless you use a very big weight, but thats called breaking not deforming)\n\nIf you put a 1 lb weight on water, it will fall until it hits the bottom, and at a very constant speed. (this only works if the density of the 1 lb weight is higher than that of water, otherwise it provides no stress to the system, so no smart answers about 1 lb of wood please).\n\nsand with a whole lot of water in it sometimes behaves like water (quicksand, and its not as dramatic as the movies claim), but thats the water doing that, not the sand.\n\ndoes that help?
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water is a natural resource and we use it foe almost everything, soil is anouther natural resource and u should know wat we use it for, things like that r natural resources