Water Underground
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| How does water get underground? | it trickles down between particles of soil and through cracks and spaces in layers of rock
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| Pores | different sized spaces
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| How easily water moves through materials depends on what two things? | the size of the pores and how connected each other are
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| Permeable | materials that allow water to easily pass through or permeate
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| Give examples of permeable | sand and gravel
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| impermeable | materials that water cannot pass through easily
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| Give examples of impermeable | clay and granite
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| True or false: once water reaches an impermeable layer it is trapped | true
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| Saturated zone | area of permeable rock or soil that is totally filled, or saturated, with water
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| What tells you how deep you must dig to reach groundwater? | knowing the depth of the water table
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| unsaturated zone | layer of the rocks and soil about the water table
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| Aquifer | any underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water
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| What factors affect how fast water moves in an aquifer? | how steeply the aquifer slopes and how permeable the rocks are
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| How can people obtain groundwater from an aquifer? | by drilling a well below the water table
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| Recharge | new ater that enters the aquifer from the surface
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| artesian well | a well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer
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| Springs | groundwater bubbles or flows out or cracks in the rock
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| geyser | type of hot spring from which the water bursts periodically into the air
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| How does a geyser form? | when very hot water that has been circulating deep underground begins to rise through narrow passages in the rock
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