Aquifer: An underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that stores and transmits groundwater.
How to apply it: Use aquifer to explain why the Ogallala Aquifer is critical for Great Plains agriculture and why its depletion is unsustainable.
Course: AP Environmental Science · Unit: Earth Systems and Resources
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