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

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.

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

• evaporation

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

Which surface would have the most runoff from it after a rainstorm?

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Which surface would be impermeable?

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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.

Which of the following depicts an artesian well?

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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

If water can easily move between cracks of a rock, we can say that...

• water is permeable

• rock is permeable

• rock is impermeable

• water is impermeable

What is porosity

• Rocks

• The percent of the volume of open spaces in rock or sediment

• Ability rock sediment fluids pass through open spaces/pores

• Nothing