Groundwater

Look at the diagram of the water cycle. When heat from the sun turns water into water vapor this is called:

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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When water cools and again becomes liquid water; this is how clouds are formed. This is called:

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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Rain, snow, sleet, hail are all types of:

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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Water that flows over the land to streams, rivers, and lakes

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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Water that is found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock is called:

• Groundwater

• River

• Surface water

• Snow

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The land area that water moves across or under while flowing to a stream, spring, pond, lake or river is a/an:

• mountain

• watershed

• ocean

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Watersheds includes surface water and ground water. Which of the following are surface water?

• Lakes, ponds, creeks streams, ocean, rivers

• Wells, water table, aquifers

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Which of the following are groundwater?

• Lakes, ponds, creeks streams, ocean, rivers

• Wells, water table, aquifers

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A natural, underground area where large quantities of groundwater fill the spaces between rocks is a/an:

• ocean

• river

• aquifer

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To use water found in an aquifer people would

• build a dam

• drill a well to below the water table

• purify ocean water

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