Introduction to Groundwater & Aquifers Notes Check In

Groundwater is water that has permeated or --------- (filtered through) into the ground. This is an important part of the water cycle.

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There are three factors that determine whether a source of groundwater will be a viable (usable) resource. What are these factors?

• Quantity, Permeability, and Water Quality

• Permeability, Ease of Withdrawal, and Water Quality

• Quantity, Ease of Withdrawal, and Water Quality

• Water Quality, Permeability, and Saturation Zone

True or False- There is less water underground than in all the lakes and streams on Earth's surface.

• True

• False

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Permeability is the capacity of water to flow through Earth materials. Water can flow readily through materials with well connected ------- space or many fractures.

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True or False- Connections between pore spaces are wider in coarse-grained materials (gravels) than fine-grained material (sand).

• True

• False

High ----- does not always go hand in hand with high -----.

• Porosity, Water Quality

• Permeability, Porosity

• Porosity, Permeability

• Water Quality, Porosity

Good aquifers have-

• stored, aquifers

• high permeability

• confined aquifer

• unconfined aquifer

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Groundwater is ----- in bodies of rock and/or sediment called -----

• stored, aquifers

• high permeability

• confined aquifer

• unconfined aquifer

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A(n) ----- ----- is created from water seeping from the ground surface directly above the aquifer

• stored, aquifers

• high permeability

• confined aquifer

• unconfined aquifer

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A(n) ----- ----- is between permeable and impermeable layers of rock

• stored, aquifers

• high permeability

• confined aquifer

• unconfined aquifer

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