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2. What causes a lowering of the groundwater level due to pumping?
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Drawdown
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3. What causes a groundwater level to be lowered?
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Pumping
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4. Discharge Area is where groundwater emerges from the aquifer or into what?
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A stream, lake, spring, wetland
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5. What is the term for the area or zone where groundwater emerges from the aquifer?
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Discharge Area
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6. The opposite of recharge is what term?
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Discharge
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7. What is the opposite of discharge?
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Recharge
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8. What type of movement is diffusion?
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The movement of a substance from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
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9. What is it called when a substance moves from an area of high concentration to low concentration?
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Diffusion
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10. What can be depleted?
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Water
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11. What is the loss of water from groundwater or surface water reservoirs at a rate greater than that of recharge?
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Depletion
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12. The use of water-saving methods to reduce the amount of water needed for homes, lawns, farming, and industry, and thus increasing water supplies for what?
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Optimum long-term economic and social benefits
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13. What type of material has little permeability or hydraulic conductivity?
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Geologic material
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14. What does the term "confined aquifer" mean?
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An aquifer that exists where the groundwater is bounded between layers of impermeable substances like clay or dense rock
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15. What is another name for an aquifer that is bounded by layers of impermeable substances?
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Confined aquifer
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16. What is the zone around a well in an unconfined aquifer that is normally saturated called?
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Cone of Depression
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17. When does water go from vapor to liquid?
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Condensation
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18. What is the opposite of condensation?
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Evaporation
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19. Water from the water table can move upward in which direction?
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Any
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20. What type of water moves upward from the water table?
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Capillary Water
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21. What property causes an object to break down?
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Biodegradable
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22. What are the three types of BMPs?
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Structural, nonstructural, and managerial
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23. What are some of the best management practices?
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Structural, nonstructural, and managerial techniques
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24. What is the continual contribution of groundwater to rivers?
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Baseflow
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25. What is groundwater seepage into a stream or river called?
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Streamflow
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26. What does a flowing artesian well have that a still artesian well doesn't?
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Water level
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27. Arsenic is a component of what type of material?
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Artesian aquifer
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28. What is the Artesian Aquifer called when it's in the ground?
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Confined aquifer
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29. An aquifer is an underground what?
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Geological formation of sand, soil, gravel and rock
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30. What is the term for the underground geological formation that can store and yield water?
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Aquifer
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31. What can plant roots capture from the aeration zone?
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Moisture
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32. What can plant roots do in the aeration zone?
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Capture the moisture
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33. What process could be used to lower groundwater levels?
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Lowering of the elevation of the groundwater table
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34. What is the term used to describe the lowering of the elevation of the groundwater table?
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Lowering groundwater levels
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35. What does the lowering of land cause?
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Subsidence
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36. What are the consequences of seawater intrusion?
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Contamination of drinking water sources
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37. What is the movement of saline water into freshwater aquifers also known as?
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Seawater intrusion
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38. What kind of quality degradation affects water supplies?
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Lowered water quality
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39. What is the migration of contaminant plumes that degrade water quality?
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Degraded quality
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40. What do degraded quality waters cause to migrate?
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Contaminant plumes
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41. What is an example of a long-term over draft?
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Drought
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42. What is the average annual supply of water to a basin?
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Long-term average annual supply
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43. What is necessary to ensure that reductions in groundwater levels or storage during a period of drought are offset by increases in groundwater levels or storage during other periods?
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Extractions and recharge
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44. What term describes the condition of a groundwater basin where the average annual amount of water extracted for a long-term period, generally 10 years or more, exceeds the long-term average annual supply of water to the basin, plus any temporary surplus?
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Reduction of storage/ chronic overdraft
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45. What are the benefits of surface water?
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Beneficial uses
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46. Surface water depletion is a significant and unreasonable adverse impact on what?
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Beneficial uses of the surface water
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47. How many undesirable results or sustainability indicators can occur from groundwater conditions?
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One or more
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48. What are some of the undesirable results that can occur from groundwater conditions?
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Sustainability indicators
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49. What is the principal application of TDS?
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Water quality for streams, rivers and lakes
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50. What is a measure of the combined content of all inorganic and organic substances contained in a liquid in molecular, ionized, or micro-granular suspended form?
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Dissolved solids
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51. What is contaminating groundwater in cities an small communities across California?
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TCP
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52. What is another name for TCP?
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Trichloropropane
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53. What does the term "Salinity" mean?
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The saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water
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54. What is the property of water that measures its saltiness?
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Salinity
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55. What version of Chrome contains hexavalent chromium?
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Chrome 6
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56. How much water can an extractor extract per year?
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Two acre-feet
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57. What would a minimis extractor extract for domestic purposes?
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Two acre-feet or less per year
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58. What kind of person extracts less than two acre-feet of water per year?
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Minimis extractor
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59. What level of the metric is not crossed despite fluctuations?
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Minimum threshold
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60. What are the measurable objectives used to determine if a basin is successful in achieving the sustainability goal?
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Specific measures
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61. What should a basin avoid by using measurable objectives?
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Significant and unreasonable undesirable results
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62. What is the existence and implementation of one or more groundwater sustainability plans called?
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Sustainability goal
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63. In what month of the year is the water year?
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October
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64. What is the term that describes groundwater or surface water from one area to another that involves crossing a political or hydrologic boundary?
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Water transfer
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65. What is an accounting of the total groundwater and surface water entering and leaving a basin?
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Water budget
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66. What is a groundwater aquifer said to be if its upper surface is open to the atmosphere?
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Unconfined
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67. What is an aquifer system that's open to the atmosphere through permeable material?
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Unconfined aquifer
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68. What do we do to groundwater supplies that are overused?
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Withdraw
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69. What is the maximum quantity of water that can be withdrawn annually from a groundwater supply without causing an undesirable result?
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Sustainable yield
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70. Water supply obtained from streams, lakes, and reservoirs is known as what type of supply?
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Surface supply
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71. What does surface supply usually come from?
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Streams, lakes, and reservoirs
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72. Where does saline/seawater intrusion take place?
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Surface water or groundwater bodies
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73. What does "saline/seawater intrusion" mean?
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The movement of salt water into a body of fresh water
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74. What means the maximum quantity of water that can be withdrawn from groundwater without causing overdraft?
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Yield
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75. What is the maximum quantity of water that can be continuously withdrawn from a groundwater basin without causing the overdraft of the basin?
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Safe yield
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76. What is added to an aquifer?
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Water
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77. What is the result of recharge occurring naturally?
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Net gain from precipitation
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78. What type of movement is called a plume?
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One fluid moving through another
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79. What property describes the movement of a body of contaminated water?
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Plume
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80. Which process makes up the overdraft of a groundwater basin?
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More water is pumped
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81. What does "outflow" mean?
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Water that leaves a place
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82. Where does water that leaves a place go?
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Outflow
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83. What are nitrates used in fertilizer?
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Nitrate contamination
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84. What are nitrates used in?
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Fertilizer
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85. What does "inflow" mean?
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Water that moves into a place
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86. What is groundwater mining?
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The process, deliberate or inadvertent, of extracting groundwater from a source
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87. A decline of what depth to uneconomic depths would indicate exhaustion of the supply?
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Pumping levels
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88. What is the process of extracting groundwater from a source at a rate in excess of the replenishment rate?
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Groundwater mining
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89. What kind of aquifer is a groundwater basin?
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Alluvial
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90. Where is groundwater found?
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Beneath the land surface
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91. What is excluded from the definition of groundwater?
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Soil moisture
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92. What process does extraction involve?
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Withdrawing groundwater from storage
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93. What is the process of withdrawing groundwater from storage by pumping or other controlled means?
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Extraction
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94. What is the process of liquid water becoming water vapor?
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Evaporation
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95. What do you get when you drawdown groundwater?
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A lowering of the groundwater surface
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96. What causes a lowering of the groundwater surface?
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Pumping
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97. What are Corcoran clay layers called?
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A very clay-rich confining layer
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98. What is the Corcoran clay layer type of soil?
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Clay-rich
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99. What is the term for the part of the water withdrawn that is evaporated?
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Consumptive use
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100. Conjunctive use is the operation of a groundwater basin with what other system to maximize water supply?
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Surface water storage and conveyance system
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101. Conjunctive use is the operation of a groundwater basin in combination with a surface water storage and conveyance system to maximize water supply, this is called what?
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Conjunctive operation
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102. What type of aquifer is confined?
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An aquifer below the land surface
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103. What is the term for an aquifer that is saturated with water?
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Confined aquifer
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104. What happens to the water table when groundwater is pumped?
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Lowering
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105. What does the term "closed basin" mean?
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A basin whose topography prevents surface outflow of water
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106. How many types of beneficial uses are there according to the State Water Quality Control Board?
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23
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107. What is the term for the use of water for some domestic, agricultural, industrial, social, recreational or instream use?
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Beneficial use
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108. What term is used to describe a group of water bearing formations?
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Aquifer
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109. What generally shallow sand and gravel deposits are associated with river channels and floodplains?
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Alluvial aquifer
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110. Who awarded the court decisions?
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Judge
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111. What is the process of determining the outcome of a case?
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Adjudication
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112. What is the volume of water required to cover 1 acre of land to a depth of 1 foot?
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Acre-foot
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113. How many acr-foot are contained in a cubic meter?
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Correct Answer:
1,233
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