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Define precipitation, infiltration, runoff, capillary water, transpiration, evapotranspiration, groundwater, aquifer, recharge area. With these defined terms, explain the hydrologic cycle. Explain why groundwater is sometimes defined as a nonrenewable resource.

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Precipitation is the process of precipitating a substance from a solution.

Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

Run off is the draining away of water from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure. Capillary water is define as water that remains in the soil after gravitational water is drained out.

Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.

Or when a plant losses water in form of water vapour

Evapotranspiration is the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land and ocean surface to the atmosphere.

Ground water is a Water that collects or flows beneath the Earth's surface, filling the porous spaces in soil, sediment, and rocks.

An aquifer is a body of saturated rock through which water can easily move.

A recharge area is a place where water is able to seep into the ground and refill an aquifer.

Hydrologic cycle also know as the water cycle

It is a process through which water passes from vapour in the atmosphere through precipitation upon land.

Ground water can sometimes be considered as nonrenewable resource because it can be used over and over again and it has a rain cycle.

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