Relier Pairs GroundwaterVersion en ligne This is a memory matching game using vocabulary from our Earth and Space Science Groundwater Lesson. par Lindsay Scott 1 Porosity 2 Permeable Surfaces 3 Aquifer 4 Zone of Aeration 5 Infiltrate 6 Percolate 7 Geysers 8 Hot Springs 9 Impermeable Surfaces 10 Fumaroles 11 Water Table 12 Groundwater 13 Artesian Well 14 Zone of Saturation gaps between sediments are filled with water a layer of permeable rock with high porosity that lets water move freely gaps between sediments are filled with both air and water solid surfaces that don't allow water to penetrate, forcing it to run off water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock amount of open space in pores between sediments that can hold water or air (also known as porous or pervious surfaces) allow water to percolate into the soil to filter out pollutants and recharge the water table filter gradually through a porous surface or substance permeate (something) by filtration hot springs that intermittently shoot streams of steam and hot water into the air a well that reaches a confined aquifer; the water flows due to pressure groundwater heated from beneath the Earth’s surface where recent volcanic eruptions have occurred, groundwater released as steam from fissures in the ground (geothermal energy source) the level below which the ground is saturated with water