Unit 7.5 Quiz Review

The ability of a material to let water pass through, which is high for material with large, well-connected pores and low for material with few pores or small pores.

• Permeability

• Karst Topography

• Water table

• sinkhole

Irregular topography with sinkholes, sinks, and sinking streams caused by groundwater dissolution of limestone.

• Permeability

• Karst Topography

• Water table

• sinkhole

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The upper boundary of the zone of saturation that rises during wet seasons and drops during dry seasons.

• Permeability

• Karst Topography

• Water table

• sinkhole

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A depression in Earth's surface formed when a cave collapses or bedrock is dissolved by acidic rain or moist soil.

• Permeability

• Karst Topography

• Water table

• sinkhole

A permeable underground layer through which groundwater flows relatively easily.

• aquifer

• Watershed

• Recharge

• well

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Land area drained by a stream system.

• aquifer

• Watershed

• Recharge

• well

This occurs when water seeps from the land's surface down through the layers of earth into an aquifer.

• aquifer

• Watershed

• Recharge

• well

A deep hole drilled or dug into the ground to reach groundwater that is then pumped to the surface.

• aquifer

• Watershed

• Recharge

• well

The amount of empty space between sediments.

• Porosity
• well

• recharge

• permeability

Water that flows downslope on Earth's surface and may enter a stream, river, or lake; its rate is influenced by the angle of the slope, vegetation, rate of precipitation, and soil composition.

• Runoff
• recharge

• porosity

• watershed