APES Chapter 13 Water Resources

Process by which plants lose water through leaves to the atmosphere

• transpiration
• evaporation
• precipitation
• infiltration

Downward movement of water through the soil

• transpiration
• evaporation
• precipitation
• infiltration

Water that falls as rain, sleet, or snow onto surface water or onto land

• transpiration
• evaporation
• precipitation
• infiltration

The sinking of land due to overpumping of ground water supplies

• water table
• subsidence
• saltwater intrusion
• overdraft

water table lowered and the normal interface between fresh and saline ground water move inland

• water table
• subsidence
• saltwater intrusion
• overdraft

More water is removed from an aquifer than can naturally recharge it

• water table
• subsidence
• saltwater intrusion
• overdraft

Which of the following would affect surface water on the Earth?
I.  ground water flow
II. surface water runoff
III.  evaporation

• I only
• I and II only
• II and III only
• I, II, and III

Least likely solution to groundwater depletion

• encourage privatization of water utilities
• set and enforce minimum stream flows
• grow more drought resistant crops in arid areas
• subsidize water conservation

The following are environmental disadvantages of dams, except...

• reduces nutrient rich silt deposits to downstream ecosystems
• prevents water loss due to evaporation
• flooded land destroys terrestrial lands and displaces people
• migration and reproductive pattern of fish species disrupted

• I only
• II only
• III only
• I and II only