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Something is saturated when every available space is filled with liquid, and something is unsaturated when some or all of the spaces inside the contain air.

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Q: What is the difference between saturated zone and unsaturated zone?
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What is the difference between the saturated zones and unsaturated zone?

Something is saturated when every available space is filled with liquid, and something is unsaturated when some or all of the spaces inside the contain air.


What is the boundary between the unsaturated zone and the saturated zone?

This is known as the phreatic surface or water table.


What is the difference between soil water and groundwater?

Ground water is the water present in the saturated zone of the subsurface. Soil water is the water present in the unsaturated zone of the subsurface.


What are the two zones of the groundwater?

The two zones of groundwater are the saturated zone and unsaturated zone.The saturated zone is filled with water and is below the unsaturated zone. The unsaturated zone has water and air in its pores (tiny open spaces in the soil).


How are the saturated zone and unsaturated zone alike?

Both layers contain water.


Is groundwater found in the saturated zone or the unsaturated zone?

Groundwater is found in a saturated zone, meaning that since there is so much water in the soil, theres just water.


The water table is found at the boundary between?

The boundary is between the unsaturated zone and the zone of saturation.


The unsaturated zone above the water table is also known as?

The unsaturated zone is also known as Zone of Aeration.


What are the three underground zones through which groundwater moves?

there is the zone of saturation in which is the pore space and is completley filled with water. there is also the zone of aeration which is the zone between the earths surface and the aquifers


What is unsaturated zone and the zone of aeration mean?

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The difference between a vegetation zone and a climate zone is that?

The difference between a vegetation zone and a climate zone is that?(a climate zone covers a broader swath of geographical space than a vegetation zone does)


What is the top of the saturated zone called?

The top saturated zone is called the water table.