Answer the given questions with the right answer:
Answer variants:
infiltration
interconnected
Evaporation
sediments
bore wells
wells
rocks
seeps
groundwater
reservoirs
1. What is meant by the term infiltration?
The process by which surface water through soil and rocks into the ground is called . Water can infiltrate more readily when the spaces between soil and rock particles are wide, open, and .
2. What are aquifers, and what role do they play in storing water?
As water infiltrates, it moves beneath the Earth's surface and gets stored in the pore spaces of and in openings present in . This stored underground water is called .
Aquifers act as natural underground of water. People obtain this groundwater by digging or drilling into aquifers. Depending on the location, groundwater may be found a few metres below the surface or even hundreds of metres deep.