Water and Water Pollution

The Ohio and Missouri Rivers are both __________ of the Mississippi River.

• tributaries

• watersheds

• divides

• water systems

The land around these rivers is known as the _____________.

• tributary

• divide

• water system

• watershed

Which order correctly completes the water cycle shown in the image?

• precipitation, evaporation, absorption

• evaporation, absorption, precipitation

• evaporation, precipitation, absorption

• precipitation, absorption, evaporation

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What is the power behind the water cycle?

• gravity

• the Sun

• evaporation

• condensation

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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

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What is occurring at A in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation

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Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…

• watershed
• surface water
• groundwater
• water cycle

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An area of land in which all of the water falling or flowing over it drains to the same location is a/an…

• watershed
• watertable
• river
• aquifer

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An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.

• water table
• aquifer
• watershed
• river

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The area of an aquifer in which rock pores are completely filled with water.

• water table
• watershed
• zone of saturation
• surface water

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