Watery Earth Lesson 5 - Learning About Groundwater

1. Where did all the water that you poured into your cup go?
2. How does this model simulate what really happens to groundwater in the world? (How does water get underground? Where is water stored underground?)
3. Based on this experiment, what can happen to a drop of water after it falls on the ground?
4. Do you think humans use groundwater? If so, what do we use groundwater for?
5. How do humans get groundwater to the surface?  Is this easy to do?
6. Do you think groundwater can move anywhere else? Where? How does it move?
7. How have your ideas about what happens to a drop of water changed since you started learning more about groundwater?

1.Well at first it went no where it stayed in the sand and in the coffee funnel. But when we poured the rest of the water in the sand it could not hold it at all and it poured into the gravel.

2. The water has to go through many surfaces before it can even get to the bedrock. Even though there weren't as many stages, there were still 3 and I think that it still showed how it works.

3. It will probably soak into water it has hit. If it doesn't, then it will evaporate into the air and then go threw the processes again.

4. I think that we do use water from underground, but it  go threw a processes to make it  cleaned first. We probably use it to drink, because of wells, and some people can dig water out of the ground, clean it, then put it in sinks for tap water.

5. They can use a well, or dig it up from the ground. But it is hard. It isn't too hard for a well, but there aren't very many wells, so usually you have to dig it up, and that is very hard.

6. I think that ground water can move because it can travel with the dirt.
7. I now know that water has many surfaces it has to go through then just the dirt. I also know that it soaks into many of those surfaces.