Does a cone of depression occur when you drop your scoop of ice cream (made with groundwater) on the ground on a hot summer day?

The correct answer to this question is No. Though it is very upsetting to drop your ice cream, it does not create a cone of depression. Some may think it is the same thing because ice cream comes in a cone, but these are two different things. Ice cream is a sweet treat, but a cone depression happens in either a potentiometric surface or groundwater table.

It takes a cone and creates it around well water. When they get closer to the well, the slope of the cone becomes steeper. The perimeter of it helps define and influence the well.

False-this is false, although a cone of depression is an actual hydrologic term. in a different sense, this is true, remembering how my young daughter complained when her ice cream fell off her cone onto the pavement once. all pumped wells, to varying degrees, cause cones of depressions to form around the well casing at the water-table (the altitude, below ground, where below it the ground is saturated with water). if large cones of depressions form then the level of the water table can decline below the depth of the water intake for the well, and the well will pump less water and possibly go dry. if this happens, it will take time for the aquifer to recharge enough to raise the water level back to previous levels. that is why it is important to study the recharge characteristics of the aquifer that is tapped by a wellthe well operator should not pump a well faster than it is recharged, as a cone of depression could form.