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- 1. Multiple Choice
What percent of the Earth's water stores is fresh water?
97%
45%
22%
3%
- 2. Multiple Choice
An underground layer of rock or soil through which water moves stores water is termed
Aquifer
Water table
aqueduct
Spring
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the biggest Aquifer in the US?
Floridan Aquifer
Edwards Aquifer
Mahomet Aquifer
High Plains Aquifer
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWater that collects in spaces and cracks in rocks and soil underground.wellaquifergroundwaterirrigation
- 5. Multiple Choice
Ground water can become surface water
True
False
- 6. Multiple Choice
Surface water can become ground water through the process of
Transportation
Percolation
Overland flow
Surface run-off
- 7. Multiple Choice
Ground water sources may be recharged by all of the following ways except
Infiltration
Percolation
When water from moving bodies of water seeps through the sediment over which it flows
Run-off of water into oceans
- 8. Multiple Choice
Where water is discharged from below the ground, the point of escape is termed a
Groundwater
Spring
Geyser
Well
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWater on the top the earth can form lakes or rivers, these are termed ____.fresh waterinfiltrationsurface watergroundwater
- 10. Multiple Choice
As rock becomes more porous...
The more water it can hold
The less water it can hold
The porosity of rock does not determine how much water it can hold
- 11. Multiple Choice
Underground, the upper surface of the zone of saturation
water table
groundwater
watershed
reservoir
- 12. Multiple Choice
What would be the best definition of permeability?
Percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces
The ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through open spaces or pores
The inability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through open spaces or pores
The level below which the ground is saturated with water
- 13. Multiple Choice
The size of an aquifer’s recharge zone is affected by the _________________ of the surface above the aquifer.
Permeability
Porosity
Water table
Desalinization
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about the water table is false
The water table changes when discharge is not balanced by recharge
The water table is generally flat
The water table is above the land surface in lakes
The water table is low near high volume pumping wells
- 15. Multiple Choice
There is much more freshwater stored in ponds and lakes than there is stored underground
True
False
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which of the following IS NOT true about groundwater?
Groundwater is the largest freshwater source on Earth.
Groundwater is freshwater beneath Earth’s surface.
Groundwater is the largest liquid freshwater source for humans.
Groundwater can maintain streamflow during times of drought.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Examine the picture, and select which of the following statements is true
Both the bottle and the sponge are porous
The bottle is porous and the sponge is permeable
The sponge is porous and the bottle is permeable
Both the bottle and the sponge are permeable
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following implies the same thing as the word "aquifer"?
zone of saturation
zone of aeration
zone of soil moisture
zone of twilight
- 19. Multiple Choice
What does the quantity of groundwater that can be stored depend upon?
It depends upon the porosity of the underground rock.
It depends upon the pH of the groundwater.
It depends upon the underground depth of the storage system.
It depends upon the temperature of the underground rock.
- 20. Multiple Choice
A place where the water table intersects the ground surface and where a natural flow of groundwater results is called:
a spring.
a geyser.
an aquatard.
a fissure.
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhich best represents the most common arrangement of zones in a water tablesurface, aerated zone, bedrock, saturated zonesurface, bedrock, aerated zone, saturated zonesurface, aerated zone, saturated zone, bedrocksurface, bedrock, saturated zone, aerated zone
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