Watershed & Texas Ecoregions Review

What is an Aquifer?

• A type of rock

• An underground layer of water bearing rock.

• An underground layer that separates saturated and unsaturated layers

• the slow movement or filtering of water thru soil and rocks.

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What is Percolation?

• an underground layer of water bearing rocks

• underground boundary that separates saturated and unsaturated zones

• The slow movement or filtering of water thru soil or rocks

• a new dance move

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What is a water table?

• an underground layer of water bearing rocks.

• A well.

• A table made of water.

• an underground boundary separating saturated and unstaturated zones

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What do you call a well that has a really low water table?

• a Wet Well

• a Dry Well

• a Wishing Well

• a Watershed

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What do you call the zone below the water table?

• Unsaturated Zone

• Saturated Zone

• Watershed

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What might cause an Aquifer to dry up

• A flood

• A hurricane

• A tsunami

• A drought

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What do we call the zone above the water table?

• Saturated Zone

• Unsaturated Zone

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Which of the following would not raise the water table line in an aquifer?

• Tsunami

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Flash Flood

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What is a water shed?

• A shed for water

• A place you store water

• When you sweat

• A place where rain runoff goes to on its way to a large body of water

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Which of the following this would NOT help our water supply?

• Leaving the sink on while brushing your teeth.

• Using your sprinklers in your yard less often

• Making sure not to liter

• Taking shorter showers

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