GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Groundwater cannot fill the porous spaces in soil, sediment, and rocks. Explanation: Water under the surface of the earth, fills the porous spaces in soil, sediment, and rocks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Groundwater is found in two zones. The unsaturated zone, immediately below the land surface, contains water and air in the open spaces, or pores. The saturated zone, a zone in which all the pores and rock fractures are filled with water, underlies the unsaturated zone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth’s surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

Detailed explanation-4: -In fact, ground water is simply the subsurface water that fully saturates pores or cracks in soils and rocks. Ground water is replenished by precipitation and, depending on the local climate and geology, is unevenly distributed in both quantity and quality.

Detailed explanation-5: -An aquifer is a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater. Groundwater enters an aquifer as precipitation seeps through the soil. It can move through the aquifer and resurface through springs and wells.