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Recharge areas

b. are always larger than discharge ones
The fastest water moves from a recharge are to a discharge area is a few

c. days
In arid areas, recharge occurs mainly in mountains and

c. alluvial fans
Large springs usually emerge from lava, gravel, or

d. limestone
Aqicludes are found

a. where the impermiable stone meet permiable stone
Stream beds and channels

e. can serve as recharge ares in arid regions
All of the following combinations would tend to produce springs except

b. granite over gravel
Newly consructed wells

a. remove water faster than it cahn be recahrged
Springs that emerge from lava flows typically

c. overly faults
Which of the following structures appear around a new well?

c. cone of depression
A perched water body

d. it is aquiclude above the water table
The origin of the word "aquifer" is

e. latin
Which of the following statements about an aquifer is not true?

b. A region of gravel makes an excellent aquifer
Aquifer translates to water

d. carrier
A well should be drilled in an igneous rock only when

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ChantelleVu

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Groundwater 3 (recahrge - aquifers)

Updated

2010-10-28T20:19:07Z

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