https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49 Nature of Aquatics en-us 2021-01-11 13:32:15 UTC 2024-10-14 02:16:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f438.png 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073930773 An aquifer is a underground layer of permeable rock vary in size, from narrow to wide, and maybe hundreds of feet thick.]]> 2021-01-11 13:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073930773 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073960729 Groundwater from Texas aquifers is used for irrigation, municipal use, manufacturing, and livestock production. ]]> 2021-01-11 13:45:36 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073960729 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073980947 Groundwater is water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock and rock formations.]]> 2021-01-11 13:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073980947 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073991170 Most aquifers are naturally recharged by rainfall or other surface water that infiltrates into the ground.]]> 2021-01-11 13:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1073991170 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074003033 Karst aquifer is an aquifer that occurs within limestone geology, where limestone has been partially dissolved so that some fractures are enlarged into passages carry the groundwater flow.]]> 2021-01-11 13:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074003033 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074019168 Types of animals that live in those areas are bats, salamanders, cavefish, cave crayfish, cave spiders, cave crickets, and other invertebrate creatures.]]> 2021-01-11 13:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074019168 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074039485 A confined aquifer is an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water while a unconfined aquifer whose upper water surface is at atmospheric pressure, and thus is able to rise and fall. ]]> 2021-01-11 14:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074039485 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074059281 Playa lakes are shallow basins and they are Texas' recharge points for the Ogallala Aquifer, and they place a critical role in providing a plentiful amount of clear water for the entire region.]]> 2021-01-11 14:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074059281 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074093568 The kind of aquatic ecosystem that can co-inhabit in groundwater is caverns and underground lakes.]]> 2021-01-11 14:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074093568 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074152225 The single most amazing adaptation of invertebrates, fish, and amphibians to live in underground aquatic ecosystems in an absence of eyes.]]> 2021-01-11 14:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074152225 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074415522 A place where water flows naturally from the ground and it can be cool water or so hot the water streams and almost boils.]]> 2021-01-11 15:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074415522 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074428081 Many of Texas unique spring and underground dwelling species have been declared by gov. Agencies to be threatened or endangered with extinction.]]> 2021-01-11 15:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074428081 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074452862 Springs along places where an earthquake has cracked and split open the earth leaving big openings with more cracks on earth floor.]]> 2021-01-11 15:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074452862 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074462013 If the aquifer is shallow enough and permeable enough to allow water to move through it at a rapid-enough rate, then people can drill wells into it and withdraw water.]]> 2021-01-11 15:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074462013 3302712 https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074481774 You can conserve groundwater by using native plants in your landscape, reduce chemical use, manage your waste materials, and wash smarter.]]> 2021-01-11 15:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/3302712/zti0q7it36tlxa49/wish/1074481774