Answer:
True
Step-by-step explanation:
Water that seeps through rocks and soil into the ground is called groundwater. Freshwater is stored underground as groundwater. The total volume of open space in which the groundwater can reside is porosity. Porosity determines the amount of water that a rock or sediment can contain. In sediments or sedimentary rocks, the porosity depends on grain size, the shapes of the grains, the degree of sorting, and the degree of cementation. The combination of water storage (porosity) and flow (permeability) makes a good aquifer—a rock unit or sediment that contains usable groundwater. Well-sorted sediments (i.e., uniform grain size) have higher porosity because smaller sediment particles do not fill in the spaces between the larger particles.