Matching Pairs GroundwaterOnline version This is a memory matching game using vocabulary from our Earth and Space Science Groundwater Lesson. by Lindsay Scott 1 Infiltrate 2 Zone of Saturation 3 Geysers 4 Permeable Surfaces 5 Zone of Aeration 6 Water Table 7 Hot Springs 8 Aquifer 9 Porosity 10 Artesian Well 11 Impermeable Surfaces 12 Percolate 13 Fumaroles 14 Groundwater groundwater heated from beneath the Earth’s surface (also known as porous or pervious surfaces) allow water to percolate into the soil to filter out pollutants and recharge the water table filter gradually through a porous surface or substance a layer of permeable rock with high porosity that lets water move freely a well that reaches a confined aquifer; the water flows due to pressure gaps between sediments are filled with water gaps between sediments are filled with both air and water amount of open space in pores between sediments that can hold water or air solid surfaces that don't allow water to penetrate, forcing it to run off hot springs that intermittently shoot streams of steam and hot water into the air the level below which the ground is saturated with water water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock permeate (something) by filtration where recent volcanic eruptions have occurred, groundwater released as steam from fissures in the ground (geothermal energy source)