Aquifers

What is an aquifer?

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.

• confining layer

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

What is an artesian well?

• an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water with layers of impermeable material are both above and below.

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

What is an confined aquifer?

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

• an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water with layers of impermeable material are both above and below.

• water that collects on the surface of the ground.

What is bedrock

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• aquifer that is below the land surface that is saturated with water with layers of impermeable material are both above and below the aquifer.

• water that collects on the surface of the ground.

what is a confining layer

• gravel

• sand

• A layer or bed of impermeable or distinctly less permeable material lying below or above one or more aquifers.

• a layer into which water seeps from the ground surface directly above the aquifer.

What is a lake?

• a small, narrow river.

• a large body of water surrounded by land.

• a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.

• a small body of still water formed naturally or by hollowing or embanking.

River

• a small body of still water formed naturally or by hollowing or embanking.

• a small, narrow brook.

• a large body of water surrounded by land.

• a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.

unconfined aquifer

• a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.

• an aquifers into which water seeps from the ground surface directly above the aquifer.

• aquifers with which an impermeable dirt/rock layer exists that prevents water from seeping into the aquifer from the ground surface located directly above.

• a large body of water surrounded by land.

What is the type of water that moves underground?

• surface water
• water table
• groundwater
• watershed

What do you call the land that water flows across, under, and through on its way to a body of water?

• Tributary
• River system
• Headwaters
• Watershed