ES Unit 8 Test Review Hydrosphere

What is a watershed?

• Water in an area
• Water that flows into a river or stream
• Land that water flows over and through
• Water that is salty

The "Tragedy of The Commons" is...

• An economic issue where people do not have enough money to buy basic needs so they resort to stealing and breaking the law.

• A type of play where someone tragically dies or gets killed.

• Economic issue where individuals tend to take advantage of the natural resource and it becomes unavailable for everyone.

One of the world's largest aquifers, the Ogallala Aquifer, an area of approximately 174,000 sq. miles, is found under how many states?

• 10

• 9

• 8

• 7

What is groundwater?

• all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• the area of land that is drained by a river system

• a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

About _________ percent of all the water on Earth is in the form of salt water.

• 90

• 97

• 95

• 98

The downward movement of water into the soil is called ?

• osmosis

• infiltration

• transpiration

• evaporation

An area of land draining into a body of water.

• water table

• watershed

• water cycle

• river beds

What is it called when plants give off water vapor from tiny pores on the back of the leaf ?

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• transpiration

In the picture to the below, what is represented by letter C?

• infiltration

• runoff

• groundwater

• transpiration

In the picture to the below, what is represented by letter F?

• infiltration

• condensation

• evpaoration

• transpiration