1. Do Now: While watching the following clip answer the following:
What is an aquifer?
What is the water table?
What can happen to groundwater?

2. Learning Objective:
I will be able to explain groundwater movement.

3. Success Criteria:
1.I can identify and explain the zone of aeration and saturation.
2. I can identify and explain the water table.
3. I can define and give an example of an aquifer.

4. Why Study Water? Only 3% of Earth’s water is freshwater.
Only 30% of ALL freshwater is in liquid form:
1% on the surface
29% underground

5. THE WATER CYCLE GLACIERS
Snow falls onto mountains and stays a long time
When it finally melts, it provides water for streams and rivers.

6. THE WATER CYCLE: Surface Water
Surface water comes from precipitation and moves due to gravity.

7. Surface Water Surface water runs downhill due to gravity.
Watershed: Area of land that contributes water to a river system.

8. Surface Water
All of the precipitation that falls inside this area, eventually flows out this outlet into the sea.

9. WATERSHEDS
All of the precipitation that falls inside this area, eventually flows out this outlet into the sea.

10. Check for Understanding:
What is a watershed?

11. Some surface water eventually becomes
GROUNDWATER

12. Groundwater – water that soaks (infiltrates/percolates) into the ground from rain or melted snow.

13. GROUND WATER
Layer of permeable rock or sediment.

14. Ground Water Zones
Water Table – Boundary at the top of the groundwater zone.

15. Check for Understanding:
What is groundwater?
Where is the water table?

16. Ground Water Zones Zone of Aeration is open space
Zone of Saturation is an AQUIFER

17. Ground Water Aquifer – Layer of permeable rock or sediment.
Notice the RECHARGE ZONE

18. Check for Understanding
What is an aquifer?
Where are the zones of aeration and saturation?

19. Ground Water
Aquifers are “recharged” by precipitation filtering into permeable soils.

20. Aquifers provide water for wells.

21. 97% of water on the earth is in the oceans.
THE WATER CYCLE
 Oceans: where it all ends up going.  
Rivers, streams and runoff carry all of the water AND EVERYTHING ELSE from the land into the oceans.
When water gets into the oceans, it mixes and becomes salty.
97% of water on the earth is in the oceans.

22. DID YOU KNOW? About ½ of 1% of the water on earth is groundwater
Only about 1/100 of 1% of the water on earth is in the rivers and lakes
It takes 39,090 gallons of water to make a new car, including tires
Over 17,000,000 houses use private wells for their drinking water supply
A person can live about a month without food, but can live only about 1 week without water

23. Summary:
Success Criteria Exit Slip