Water that collects on the earth’s surface is called the water table.
A.
True
B.
False

Question

Water that collects on the earth’s surface is called the water table.
 A.	
  True  
 B.	
  False

abhisar · Answer

Yes that's true

abhisar · Answer

actually it should be below the earth's surface

abhisar · Answer

So i think it's false

anonymous · Answer

so false?

anonymous · Answer

It is false. The water table is the surface where the water pressure head is equal to the atmospheric pressure (where gauge pressure = 0). It may be conveniently visualized as the "surface" of the subsurface materials that are saturated with groundwater in a given vicinity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_table

abhisar · Answer

Actually to be simple, ground water is called as portable water and surface below the water level is water table. It's underground