Groundwater

Groundwater & Surface Water

8th Grade Science

Spring 2021

Multiple Choice

The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapo-transpiration is called the...

• carbon cycle
• nitrogen cycle
• water cycle
• rock cycle

Multiple Choice

What is groundwater?

• all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• the area of land that is drained by a river system

• a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

Multiple Choice

Area of land where surface water and groundwater drains into a river system.

• Runoff

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Watershed

Multiple Choice

When water flows across the surface of the earth it is called?

• Watershed

• River

• Run Off

• Rain

Multiple Choice

Healthy (potable) pH of a fresh water source is around

• 2.0

• 3.4

• 7.0

• 9.0

Multiple Choice

Water above Earth's surface is called

• tributary

• surface water

• watershed

• groundwater

Multiple Choice

An area where water trickles down into the ground and reaches the water table and enters an aquifer to replenish the aquifer is called

• discharge zone

• recharge zone

• permeability

• porosity

Multiple Choice

An area where groundwater becomes surface water is called

• gradient

• porosity

• permeability

• recharge zone

• discharge zone