Question

Examine the diagram and the text:

Answer 1

The Water Cycle showing labels RECHARGE AREA, DISCHARGE AREA, PUMPED WELL, Water table, Days, Years, Unconfined aquifer, Confined aquifer, Confining bed, Centuries, and Millennia .The Water Cycle: Groundwater Discharge .There's more water than just what you can see is described in the following way

Explanation:

1.A regional confined aquifer is directly recharged by precipitation in the area where the aquifer crops out, having the same characteristics as an unconfined aquifer, Another source of recharge is the infiltration in the same cropping out area of the runoff born on the hillslopes during rains or snowmelt

2.The pressure in such an aquifer commonly is called artesian pressure, and the formation containing artesian water is an artesian aquifer or confined aquifer. ... --an process where water is put back into ground-water storage from surface-water supplies such as irrigation, or induced infiltration from streams or wells.

3.Groundwater flow lines, which represent the paths of groundwater downslope, are drawn perpendicular to the contour lines. ... Remember: groundwater always moves from an area of higher hydraulic head to an area of lower hydraulic head, and perpendicular to equipotential lines.

4.Groundwater flow lines, which represent the paths of groundwater downslope, are drawn perpendicular to the contour lines. ... Remember: groundwater always moves from an area of higher hydraulic head to an area of lower hydraulic head, and perpendicular to equipotential lines.

5.After entering an aquifer, water moves slowly toward lower lying places and eventually is discharged from the aquifer from springs, seeps into streams, or is withdrawn from the ground by wells. Groundwater in aquifers between layers of poorly permeable rock, such as clay or shale, may be confined under pressure.