Water Underground

This is a picture of what?

• Permeable rock

• Impermeable rock

• spring

• Artesian Well

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Spaces between particles of sediment in the ground

• pores

• aquifer

• spring

• well

Material that allows water to pass through

• permeable

• impermeable

• saturation zone

• aquifer

The top of the saturated zone

• aquifer

• water table

• spring

• well

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

When people obtain groundwater from an aquifer by drilling into a well below the water table

• well

• spring

• water table

• unsaturated zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

New water that enters an aquifer

• recharge

• unsaturated zone

• pores

• water table

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Materials that water cannot pass through easily

• permeable

• impermeable

• pores

• water table

What could happen to the water table if several houses sharing a well started pumping water at a high rate at the same time?

• the water table may fall

• the water table may rise

• the well will be completeley dry

• the wells will overflow

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The source below the ground that provides water from underground is called

• a reservoir

• an unsaturated zone

• aquifer

• water treatment plant

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What an area is called when the soil is totally filled up with water?

• saturated zone

• unsaturated zone

• permeable

• impermeable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4