water underground

What is the percentage of empty space in something?

• Porosity

• Permeability

• Aquifer

How well/fast water can travel through something

• Absorption
• Impermeability
• Porosity

• Permeability

What is the boundary between the zone of aeration and the zone of saturation?

• water table
• groundwater
• permeability
• aquifer

What is a place where water is stored underground in the empty spaces between rocks and dirt?

• lake
• Zone of aeration

• aquifer
• ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

True or false all water is stored in the ground in hollow caves?

• True

• False

An icicle shaped formation hanging from the roofs of caves

• stalactite
• water droplet
• rock
• stalagmite

An icicle like formation found on the floors of caves

• stalactite
• stalagmite
• rock formation
• water droplet

What is it called when stalactites and stalagmites grow until they eventually connect?

• Drip stone column

• Tower

• Stalagmite

• Water droplets

What can form if water wears away a portion of ground underneath the surface and the water table goes below it?

• cave
• sinkhole
• tunnel
• crevice

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which zone can be compare to a sponge as it absorbs and holds water?

• zone of aeration
• zone of transpiration
• zone of evaporation
• zone of saturation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4