Groundwater and Glaciers

Water beneath the surface of the ground.

• Groundwater
• Earth
• Surface runoff
• Reservoire

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What is a watershed?

• Watershed is when water runs down a hill

• watershed is when runoff and groundwater drain into a body of water.

• watershed is when water falls from the sky

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What do you call land where water runoff and ground water drain into a large body of water?

• Runoff

• Watershed

• condensation

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Which term BEST links groundwater and the water cycle?

• evaporation

• condensation

• infiltration

• glaciers

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How do we access groundwater?

• recharge

• wells

• rivers

• acid rain

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How does groundwater recharge?

• evaporation

• transpiration

• precipitation

• condensation

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What would cause the water table to lower?

• High rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation

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What process causes liquid water to evaporate from plant leaves and enter the atmosphere as water vapor?

• evaporation

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

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Which soil would have the greatest permeability rate after a rainstorm?

• sand (0.02 cm)

• silt (0.002 cm)

• clay (0.0002 cm)

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

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