Asked by yo

The image shows a cross section of a landscape and a well.

1: Land surface. 2: Unsaturated zone. 3: Groundwater. 4: Saturated zone.

Which of the layers shown is an aquifer?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
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The aquifer is the saturated zone (pores filled with water) that can transmit and yield water to wells; the unsaturated zone and land surface are not aquifers, and "groundwater" is the water within the aquifer.