Do Now 1._____ solid precipitation that forms as balls or lumps of ice (precipitation) 2._____water vapor to liquid (water cycle) 3. _____puffy white clouds (clouds) 4._____warm air rises and cool air sinks (atm heating) 5. ____powers the water cycle (water cycle 2)
Key Questions 1.What is ground water? 2.What is the water table? 3.What is a spring? 4.What is a well? 5.What is a cave? 6.What is a sinkhole?
Answers to Key Questions 1. Ground water-water located in rocks beneath Earth’s surface
2. Water table-boundary between the zone of aeration and the zone of saturation
3. Spring-where the water table reaches Earth’s surface and water flows out of the ground =
4. Well-human made hole that is deeper than the water table and fills with groundwater
5. Cave-forms as groundwater dissolves rock and soil
6. Sinkhole-places where the water table is lower than the roof of a cave which collapses leaving a circular depression