groundwater

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GROUNDWATER It’s water under the ground absorbed from rainfall. Filtration: when it rains, water filters through the soil and goes underground. Aquifers: water collected in underground basins (lakes) A well: it’s a hole that extracts water from aquifers. Spring: water that comes to the surface and turns into rivers. Watershed: body of water that a river finally flows into. Duero, Tagus, Guadiana and Guadalquivir flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Ebro flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

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GROUNDWATER

It’s water under the ground absorbed from rainfall.

Filtration: when it rains, water filters through the soil and goes underground.

Aquifers: water collected in underground basins (lakes)

A well: it’s a hole that extracts water from aquifers.

Spring: water that comes to the surface and turns into rivers.

Watershed: body of water that a river finally flows into.

Duero, Tagus, Guadiana and Guadalquivir flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Ebro flows into the Mediterranean Sea.