Groundwater and Soil Quiz

What is the best definition of a water table?

• The level to which a river rises when it floods

• The boundary between the land and the ocean

• The top of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The bottom of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The top of the unsaturated zone in an aquifer

What would cause the water table to lower?

• High rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation

What is infiltration?

• The process by which water sinks into the ground

• The zone where there are still air spaces left between the particles.

• The process by which water vapor turns into liquid water and forms fog or clouds.

• The process by which water does not sink into the ground, but rather travels along the surface.

What process transforms the water vapor in the atmosphere to the liquid water in a cloud?

• evaporation

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

Which soil would have the greatest permeability rate after a rainstorm?

• sand (0.02 cm)

• silt (0.002 cm)

• clay (0.0002 cm)

Which of the following IS NOT true about groundwater?

• Groundwater is the largest freshwater source on Earth.

• Groundwater is freshwater beneath Earth’s surface.

• Groundwater is the largest liquid freshwater source for humans.

• Groundwater can maintain streamflow during times of drought.

Rain, snow, sleet, hail are all types of:

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

Water that flows over the land to streams, rivers, and lakes

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

Which of the following are groundwater?

• Lakes, ponds, creeks streams, ocean, rivers

• Wells, water table, aquifers

A natural, underground area where large quantities of groundwater fill the spaces between rocks is a/an:

• ocean

• river

• aquifer