Water Resources

Multiple Choice

What is the driving force of the water cycle?

• Evaporation from the ocean

• Heat from the sun

• Precipitation from rainfall

• Runoff from mountains

Multiple Choice

Where is most of the Earth’s freshwater located?

• In icecaps and glaciers

• In oceans

• In lakes

• In streams

Multiple Choice

Complete the statement:

About 96.5 % of the total volume of the world’s water is estimated to exist as

_____ and only 2.5 % as _______.

• freshwater, oceans

• oceans, freshwater

• groundwater, oceans

• oceans, surface water

Multiple Choice

Complete the statement:

Nearly 70 % of freshwater occurs as ice sheets and glaciers in _______,

Greenland and the mountainous regions of the world.

• Antarctica

• Siberia

• Alaska

• Russia

Multiple Choice

Complete the statement:

A little less than _________ of freshwater is stored as groundwater in the

world’s aquifers.

• 5%

• 20%

• 10%

• 30%

Multiple Choice

What do you call the percentage of a rock's total volume that is taken up by

pore space?

• permeability

• recharge

• aquifer

• porosity

Multiple Choice

Which of the following qualities should the best groundwater reservoirs have?

• low permeability and low porosity

• low permeability and high porosity

• high permeability and low porosity

• high permeability and high porosity

Multiple Choice

What is the second layer of the ocean called?

• Deep zone

• Surface zone

• Secondary zone

• Thermocline

Multiple Choice

What is the largest ocean in the world?

• Pacific ocean

• Atlantic ocean

• Arctic ocean

• Indian ocean

Multiple Choice

Complete the statement:

A coastal body of water connected to the ocean and supplied with fresh

water from a river is a(n) __________ .

• Stream

• Swamp

• Marsh

• Estuary