GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The groundwater found below the water table comes from precipitation that has seeped through surface soil. Springs are formed where the water table naturally meets the land surface, causing groundwater to flow from the surface and eventually into a stream, river, or lake.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gravity and pressure move water downward and sideways underground through spaces between rocks. Eventually it emerges back to the land surface, into rivers, and into the oceans to keep the water cycle going.

Detailed explanation-3: -The underground water that flows from an aquifer to the earth’s surface is called spring.

Detailed explanation-4: -Under natural conditions, ground water moves along flow paths from areas of recharge to areas of discharge at springs or along streams, lakes, and wetlands. Discharge also occurs as seepage to bays or the ocean in coastal areas, and as transpiration by plants whose roots extend to near the water table.

Detailed explanation-5: -The area at the stream or lake to which the groundwater is flowing is a discharge area.