Unit 6 Quiz: Freshwater

The process in which water seeps into soil to become groundwater

• Exfoliation

• Run-off

• Infiltration

• Reservoir

An underground layer of rock or soil that has connected pores, or holes, that water can pass through.

• aquifer

• reservoir

• lake

• tributary

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What percentage of liquid fresh water is contaminated?

• 0.6%

• 0.3%

• 3%

• 97%

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Which is an example of a wetland?

• Marshes

• Ponds

• Aquifers

• Floodplains

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Where is most of earth's freshwater found?

• In lakes and rivers

• In the ground

• In the clouds

• In polar ice caps and glaciers

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Drainage area of a river made up by several watersheds

• River basin

• Groundwater

• Estuary

• Watershed

Most freshwater is obtained through

• Wells

• Reservoirs

• Desalination

• Bottled water

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Groundwater is found underground in the zone of...

• aeration

• truth

• aquification

• saturation

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The percentage of the total volume of rock or sediment that consists of pore spaces is called...

• permeability

• porosity

• viscosity

• holiness

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Which of the following is a measure of a material's ability to transmit fluids through interconnected pore spaces?

• transparency

• porosity

• permeability

• passivity