Ground water

Percentage of open space between particles

• runoff

• discharge

• permeability

• porosity

Answer explanation

Pores are the air pockets between sediments. Large sediments have bigger air pockets, but less of them. Small sediments have smaller air pockets, but more of them. =

When water moves over the Earth's surface (streams/puddles)

• runoff

• permeability

• infiltration

• porosity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water moves upward in the ground

• runoff

• infiltration

• discharge

• capillary action

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

characteristic that allows water to pass through connecting pore spaces

• porosity

• permeability

• capillary action

• runoff

How is an aquifer different than an underwater cave?

• Aquifers are solid sediment and caves are not

• Caves are solid sediment and aquifers are not

• Aquifers are created by acid rain

Zone where the pore spaces in the rock/soil are empty of water

boundary between zone of saturation & zone of aeration; wells must go below the water table to reach water

area where the pore spaces in the rock/soil are filled with water

the percent of a material’s volume that is pore space

how quickly water can travel through a material