Quiz 3.2

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

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What is occurring at A in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation

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

• water table
• aquifer
• watershed
• river

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The top boundary of the zone of saturation in an aquifer which can fluctuate based on precipitation and the amount of draw from wells

• aquifer
• water table
• watershed
• drainage system

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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 water leaves plants is what?

• Persperation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Evapotranspiration

The streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main river are its

• watersheds

• tributaries

• divides

• reservoirs

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What is all the water that runs off the surface of the land and washes into rivers, streams, and other waterways called?

• Runoff
• Storm Drain
• Surface Water
• Tributary

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The water that fills lakes and rivers

• groundwater
• surface water
• water table
• saturated zone

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What is a watershed?

• Land that collects and channels water froma small body of water to a larger body of water
• the shape of the land determined by elevation
• A natural stream of water of considerable  volume
• a river and all its tributaries

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