Watershed/ Water Quiz

An area of land where the surface water and ground water drain into a particular body of water.

• aquifer
• watershed
• subsidence
• divide

What process is happening at C in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• condensation
• transpiration

What is occurring at A in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation

An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.

• water table
• aquifer
• watershed
• river

How do people extract groundwater?

• groundwater cannot be extracted
• by drilling wells and pumping water out of the ground
• mining water from the Earth
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How does water leave the atmosphere? Give the most complete answer.

• Rain

• Sleet

• Precipitation

• Hail

How water leaves plants is what?

• Persperation

• Evaporation

• Evapotranspiration

The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapo-transpiration is called the...

• carbon cycle
• nitrogen cycle
• water cycle
• rock cycle

Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…

• watershed
• surface water
• groundwater
• water cycle

Groundwater is found in permeable rock.  Permeable means…

• porous
• nothing can pass throughc
• caves and caverns
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