14.1 What Is Groundwater?

Name: ______Date: ______Block: ______

14.1 What is Groundwater?

LESSON REVIEW

PART A: Decide whether each type of soil described can hold a little or a lot of groundwater. Write little or a lot in the space provided.

______1. loosely packed soil

______2. tightly packed soil

______3. soil with particles of equal size

______4. soil with particles of different sizes

______5. soil with many pores

______6. soil with few pores

PART B: Complete the following. Write your answers in the spaces provided.

1. Water that collects in the spaces between rock and soil particles is called ______

2. The air spaces between rock and soil particles are called ______

3. When pore spaces in the ground are holding as much water as they possibly can, the ground is ______

4. The upper level of saturated rock is called the ______

5. The ______of most plants get water from the upper levels of the soil.

SKILL CHALLENGE

Skills: interpreting a diagram, predicting. Use the diagram to answer the questions.

1. Color the Zone of Saturation Blue2. Color the Zone of Aeration Brown

3. Which letter indicates the water table? ______

4. Which letter indicates pores? ______

5. Which letter indicates solid rock? ______

6. Which layer is impermeable? ______

7. Which layers are permeable? ______

8. Can the layer just below B hold groundwater? ______

Why or Why not?

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9. What would happen to the level of the water table if there was no rain for several months?

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10. What would happen to the level of the water table if it rained continuously for several weeks?

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Name: ______Date: ______Block: ______

14.2 What are wells and springs?

Lesson Review

PART A: Match each term in Column B with its description in Column A. Write the correct letter in the space provided.

Column A

______1. usually cold and located on hillsides

______2. water that comes from wells

______3. also known as recharge

______4. does not need a pump

______5.Forms when water is pumped from a well

Skill Challenge

Skills: identifying, inferring

Use the diagrams to answer the questions.

Well A Well B

1. Which well is an artesian well? ______How can you tell?______

2. Wells must be dug below what boundary in order to get water? ______

3. Which well could contain water from miles away? ______

4. During a period of dry weather, which well would probably dry up first? Why? ______

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5. The rock that sandwiches the artesian aquifer is also known as the confining layers. What does that mean?

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