Freshwater (thru groundwater)

What is the water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers called?

• Groundwater
• Water Table
• Precipitation
• Snow

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The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a

• water table
• trailer
• house
• watershed

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Which of the following IS NOT true about groundwater?

• Groundwater is the largest freshwater source on Earth.

• Groundwater is freshwater beneath Earth’s surface.

• Groundwater is the largest liquid freshwater source for humans.

• Groundwater can maintain streamflow during times of drought.

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The top of an aquifer is known as:

• the water table.

• an artesian well.

• the hydraulic gradient.

• a geyser.

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A place where the water table intersects the ground surface and where a natural flow of groundwater results is called:

• a spring.

• a geyser.

• an aquatard.

• a fissure.

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What is the source of heat for hot springs?

• It is provided by the cooling of igneous rock.

• It is provided by the transformation of metamorphic rock to sedimentary rock.

• It is provided by the warming process of soil moisture.

• It is provided by plate subduction at convergent boundaries.

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What is the most common method for removing groundwater?

• a well bored into the zone of saturation

• accessing the water table by use of low-grade explosives

• building a water tower

• damming up a river

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How many river basin make-up North Carolina River Basin systems?

• 4

• 11

• 17

• 21

Most of the world’s freshwater is trapped where?

• Glaciers and Ice Caps

• Lakes, Rivers and Streams

• Groundwater

• Atmosphere

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Land area drained by a stream system is known as what?

• Tributary

• Watershed

• River Basin

• Aquifer

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