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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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

OpenStudy (abhisar):

Yes that's true

OpenStudy (abhisar):

actually it should be below the earth's surface

OpenStudy (abhisar):

So i think it's false

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so false?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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

OpenStudy (abhisar):

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

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