Groundwater

What is the best definition of a water table?

• The level to which a river rises when it floods

• 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 would cause the water table to lower?

• High rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation

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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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What process transforms the water vapor in the atmosphere to the liquid water in a cloud?

• evaporation

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

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What process causes liquid water to evaporate from plant leaves and enter the atmosphere as water vapor?

• evaporation

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

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Which soil would have the greatest permeability rate after a rainstorm?

• sand (0.02 cm)

• silt (0.002 cm)

• clay (0.0002 cm)

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Which soil would have the greatest capillarity?

• sand (0.02 cm)

• silt (0.002 cm)

• clay (0.0002 cm)

What is capillarity?

• When water cannot infiltrate a substance

• Water being held onto by rock or sediment

• The ability of water to move upward against gravity in a material

• The percentage of empty space in a material

These containers have the same volume of beads which are representing soil particles. What is the relative porosity and permeability of each?

• The container on the left has the higher permeability and porosity

• The container on the right has the higher permeability and porosity

• The container on the left has the higher permeability, but they both have the same porosity

• The container on the right has the higher permeability, but they both have the same porosity

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500 mL of water is added to each tube and allowed to drain out. Which container would have the highest retention of water after it drained? (particle size gets bigger as you move to the right)

• A

• B

• C

• D

• They would all be the same in terms of retention

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