Subsurface/groundwater quiz

What percent of the Earth's water stores is fresh water?

• 97%

• 45%

• 22%

• 3%

An underground layer of rock or soil through which water moves stores water is termed

• Aquifer

• Water table

• aqueduct

• Spring

What is the biggest Aquifer in the US?

• Floridan Aquifer

• Edwards Aquifer

• Mahomet Aquifer

• High Plains Aquifer

Water that collects in spaces and cracks in rocks and soil underground.

• well
• aquifer
• groundwater
• irrigation

Ground water can become surface water

• True

• False

Surface water can become ground water through the process of

• Transportation

• Percolation

• Overland flow

• Surface run-off

Ground water sources may be recharged by all of the following ways except

• Infiltration

• Percolation

• When water from moving bodies of water seeps through the sediment over which it flows

• Run-off of water into oceans

Where water is discharged from below the ground, the point of escape is termed a

• Groundwater

• Spring

• Geyser

• Well

Water on the top the earth can form lakes or rivers, these are termed ____.

• fresh water
• infiltration
• surface water
• groundwater

As rock becomes more porous...

• The more water it can hold

• The less water it can hold

• The porosity of rock does not determine how much water it can hold