Day 4: Groundwater
Read the attached text and answer the questions below.
1. What is the water table? Why is it higher in some areas that others?
2. What are aquifers? Why do they hold water so well?
3. Where is the largest aquifer in the world? What has happened to it?
4. Most of its water came from glaciers that melted thousands of years ago. What is the aquifer’s primary water source today?
5. What have we done/can we do to save this aquifer?
6. The area above the water table is known as the zone of aeration and the area below is the zone of saturation. Describe each of these layers.
1. What is the water table? Why is it higher in some areas that others?
2. What are aquifers? Why do they hold water so well?
3. Where is the largest aquifer in the world? What has happened to it?
4. Most of its water came from glaciers that melted thousands of years ago. What is the aquifer’s primary water source today?
5. What have we done/can we do to save this aquifer?
6. The area above the water table is known as the zone of aeration and the area below is the zone of saturation. Describe each of these layers.
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