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Groundwater 💧

What happens to precipitation after it comes down?

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Which process of the hydrologic cycle converts gas back to liquid form?

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When water returns to the surface of the earth, what can it do?

• Condensate into the sky

• Infiltrate into the ground

• Remain in the atmosphere

• Runoff into another body of water

Groundwater

The water stored below Earth's surface

When water soaks through the ground it becomes groundwater

This is called infiltration

Porosity - Amount of space in between soil particles

• High Porosity = Lots of space between the soil

• Low Porosity = Little space between the soil

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Which would have higher porosity? (More space between particles)

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Fun fact: Clay is the most porous sediment but is the least permeable

Permeability - Material's ability to allow fluids to pass

• High Permeability = Water can travel through soil easily

• Low Permeability = Water can’t travel through soil easily

Pores must have interconnected conduits: open pathways for continuous flow

Saturation

• If the ground is saturated, water is less likely to infiltrate

• If the ground will not absorb any more water, the water will become runoff

• Flooding may occur

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What does the water table sit between?

• Ground zone

• Zone of aeration

• Zone of saturation

• Aquifer

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What is a well?

• Where you make a wish

• Hole drilled into the zone of aeration

• A place underground

• Hole drilled into the zone of saturation

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When does ground subsidence occur?

• When water is used faster than it is replenished

• When the ground is flooded for too long

• When there is a drought

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Of the options listed below, what is the best definition of a water table?

• The boundary between the land and the ocean

• The top of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The bottom of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The top of the unsaturated zone in an aquifer

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What is infiltration?

• The process by which water sinks into the ground

• The zone where there are still air spaces left between the particles.

• The process by which water vapor turns into liquid water and forms fog or clouds.

• The process by which water does not sink into the ground, but rather travels along the surface.

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Which surface would have the most runoff from it after a rainstorm?

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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

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Number 1 Represents

• Water table

• Zone of Aeration

• Zone of Saturation

• Soil Moisture

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Number 3 represents

• Soil Moisture

• Zone of Saturation

• Water Table

• Zone of Aeration

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If the surface soil is saturated and precipitation increases, there will be

• a decrease in the amount of groundwater

• a decrease in the surface elevation of the lake

• a increase in the amount of capillarity

• an increase in the amount of runoff

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What is the relationship between soil type/particle size and permiability (as shown by the bar graph below)?

• The larger the particle size, the slower the permeability rate

• The smaller the particle size, the faster the permeability rate

• There is no relationship between particle size and permeability

• The larger the particle size, the faster the permeability rate

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What would cause the water table to lower?

• Periods of low precipitation

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation

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Which watershed is number 1 on the map?

• Gulf of Mexico

• North Carolina Sounds

• Chesapeake Bay

• All of the above

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What watershed is number 3 on the map?

• North Carolina Sounds

• Gulf of Mexico

• Chesapeake Bay

• All of the above

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What watershed is number 2 on the map?

• North Carolina Sounds

• Gulf of Mexico

• Chesapeake Bay

• All of the above

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An area of land where the surface water and groundwater drain into a particular body of water

• Watershed

• Drainage Divide

• Erosion

• Aquifer