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- 1. Multiple Choice
Imagine you are a geologist studying water resources. What would you call an underground area of rock and soil that is soaked with water?
An aquifer
A marsh
A river
A well
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not part of Earth’s surface water?
wetlands
rivers
aquifers
lakes
- 3. Multiple Choice
What best describes the formation of aquifers?
Artificial bodies of water created by constructing barriers in rivers.
Areas where water is unable to seep into the ground.
Water that permeates through soil or rock and accumulates in permeable layers underground.
Deposits of water on the surface that are gradually absorbed into the ground, forming new water layers.
- 4. Multiple Choice
If more water is removed from the aquifer, then ____ can occur.
Water supplies
Water pollution
Water scarcity / water shortage
An aquifer
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWater flows through permeable materials ____________________ than impermeable materials.slowerfaster
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which diagram represents the soil with the greatest permeability?Choice 1Choice 2Choice 3Choice 4 - 7. Multiple Choice
This aquifer is bounded above and below by impermeable layers of rock.
unconfined aquifer
confined aquifer
well
aquitard
- 8. Multiple Choice
What describes an artesian well? Choose all that apply.
a polluted well
a well that is drilled into a confined aquifer
a well that is drilled into an unconfined aquifer
Because of pressure, water just rises up in this type of well.
- 9. Reorder
Order the following steps
The Sun heats earth's water
Water warms and rises into the air as a gas
As it rises it cools down forming tiny water droplets
The cooled water droplets form clouds
Gravity causes heavy droplets to fall as rain, sleet, hail, snow
- 10. Multiple Choice
In a C.E.R model, reasoning is supposed to do what?
Reasoning explains why you think what you think.
Reasoning connects your evidence to your claim.
Reasoning connects the claim to other possible claims.
Reasoning provides facts about the claim. Things that are observed.
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