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As permeability increases

• Infiltration decreases and runoff decreases

• Infiltration increases and runoff decreases

• Infiltration decreases and runoff increases

• Infiltration increases and runoff increases

How does groundwater occur?

• It doesn't occur

• Rain seeps into the ground until it is completely saturated

• it just happens at random

• When water runs off the surface due to maximum saturation

If water can easily move between cracks of a rock, we can say that...

• water is permeable

• rock is permeable

• rock is impermeable

• water is impermeable

Define permeability

• Water

• Nothing

• Percent of volume of open spaces in rock or sediment

• Ability rock/sediment fluids pass through open spaces/pores

Water flows through permeable materials ____ than impermeable materials.

• slower

• faster