Exam 1

List of topics for review

Scientific notation

Significant digits

Hydrologic cycle

Water budget, water budget equation (inputs - outflows = delta storage)

Precipitation, evaporation, infiltration, overland flow, runoff, baseflow, subsea outflow, storage

Gaining stream, losing stream

Mass, Weight, Force, Pressure, gravitational acceleration

Properties of water - polarity, dynamic viscosity, compressibility

Porosity, effective porosity, specific yield, sediment parameters affecting porosity

Permeability, sediment parameters affecting permeability

Hydraulic conductivity and Darcy's law, Q, K, A, dh, dl

Intrinsic permeability

Specific discharge

Aquifer, perched aquifer, aquiclude, aquitard, aquifuge, confining layer, leaky confining layer

Confined aquifer, water table, unconfined aquifer, artesian aquifer, potentiometric surface

Hydraulic Head, piezometer, total head = elevation head + pressure head

Storativity, compressibility / elasticity, grain skeleton, specific storage, specific yield