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What is the Process by which water filters down to underground water table?
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Percolation
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What does ground water have to do with the water table?
The water table is the term for how deep underground you have to dig to find ground water.
Underground layer of spongy rock that holds water is?
Water table
Where are the water tables located?
Water tables are the underground boundary between the water saturated rock and soil layer and the unsaturated or dry rock and soil layer. Where a water table intersects the surface a lake, pond, river, stream, spring, etc. forms on the surface at the same level as the water table. A well is made by digging a hole down to below the water table at that location and the bottom of that hole will fill with water to the same level as the water table.
What is the difference between infiltration and percolation?
Infiltration is when water is going into the ground. Percolation is when water is passing the water table underground.
How does leaching happen?
Leaching occurs when water seeps into the ground. This process dissolves chemicals and carries them into the water supply underground.
What does ground water have to do with the water table?
The water table is the term for how deep underground you have to dig to find ground water.
What do you call the upper level of underground water?
the water table
How do wells gather water?
Wells get water from the underground water table.
How can thunderstorms affect the water table?
Rainwater from thunderstorms can make its way underground and raise the water table.
Underground layer of spongy rock that holds water is?
Water table
True or false the water table is mostly underground?
True. If the water table is above ground, we call it a "lake", rather than referring to the "water table".
Is well water a type of surface water?
Well water is by definition from an underground aquifer, or water table.
What does the water table and water wells have in common?
"Water table" means the level of water underground. So when you dig a well, you have to dig down at least to that level.
What process fill lakes of underground water?
Percolation
What is a good sentence using the word underground?
The water table is underground. Mining is used to extract ores from underground. The placement of underground utility wires must be marked.
Which process fills lakes of underground water?
Percolation
What is the relationship between the zone of aeration the zone of saturation and the water table?
Its all apart of underground water.
