Name:Michael Max Rey C.

Arnoza Date:21/07/2021

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING:

1. If a region receives a lot of rainfall, will the water table in the region probably rise or fall
Yes the water table will rise when a region receives a lot of rainfall as all that excess water
that hasn`t been absorbed by the plants and trees or haven`t found a way to rivers and lakes
will be heavily absorbed by the ground.

2. Shale has a very high porosity. However, shale does not form many aquifers, because
water cannot move through it easily. Explain why this might be the case. If the shale happens
to be placed the top of the qualifier, water from above the ground cannot infiltrate beneath.
Because shale is highly resistant in absorbing absorbing water, Causing the qualifiers to
simply or barely exist as it cannot store enough water that came from above.

3. How are caves and sinkholes related?

They are both created by chemical weathering caused by constant flow of water.

4. What are the two features that are formed by underground weathering?
The two features that are being created due to underground weathering are sinkholes and
caves.

5. How can chemicals that are spilled on land end up in oceans or other water bodies?
Because chemicals specially the liquid ones can be absorb by the ground. Then the chemicals
will be mixed up with the water in the water table. In which that water table supplies nearby
streams. Then that streams flows into rives that connects to lakes, seas, and oceans.

ACTIVITY 5 – A DROP IN YOUR CUP LAB JOURNAL (Can be placed in your

reflective journal)

Instructions: You are the city water master responsible for supplying water to local homes
and farms. In the past, groundwater supplies have been adequate. But now a growing
population has forced you to drill more wells, and you are concerned that increased pumping
will affect water levels. In the simulation picture below, you can see what will happen when
your pump station comes on the line.
Questions:

1. Describe what happens to groundwater when the rate of pumping is less than the rate
of infiltration. 

The water at the water table seem to be untouched and the water is plentiful.

2. Describe what happens to water levels when the rate of pumping is greater than the
rate of infiltration. 

The water levels in the water table significantly dropped, affecting the nearby stream.

3. In this situation, how do you think water needs can be met over the long-term? 

The situation can be stable if there are only 2 pumps running and in a schedule so that
there an ample time for the water level to recover .

What happened to the stream as the water table dropped? What would have happened if that
water body wasn't a stream, but an ocean?
The stream instantly dropped its water levels and eventually will dry in the future. But if that water
body happens to be an ocean, nothing will happen as the ocean has alot of water sources to supply
its water level.