Subsurface water (fact sheet 16) Flashcards
1
Q
Water table
A
Top of the saturated zone of ground
2
Q
Ground water
A
water below a water table
3
Q
Soil water
A
Water within a few meters of the ground surface that is often not fully saturated with water
4
Q
How is subsurface flow measured?
A
the volume of pores
representative elementary volumes
5
Q
Aquitard
A
Will transmit and store only small quantities of water
6
Q
Aquifer
A
A ground water body that will both store and transmit water, therefore is both permeable and porous
7
Q
Aquiclude
A
Will store but not transmit water
8
Q
Aquifuge
A
Will neither transmit nor store water
9
Q
Two types of aquifers
A
confined and unconfined
10
Q
Unconfined aquifer
A
the water-level in borehole open within an aquifer is the same as the water table
