Groundwater/Resources Quiz

Using public transportation, like trains and buses, rather than cars helps conserve nonrenewable resources because public transportation -

• requires the removal of trees to make roads and tracks

• needs more water to maintain than the same number of cars

• uses less fossil fuels to move people from place to place

• involves using much more paper for printed materials

Fossil fuels form when organic matter is buried and then exposed to heat and pressure for millions of years. Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable resources because they –

• take a long time to form

• are used to produce heat

• form from organic matter

• can be found underground

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To save and use a resource carefully

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

• Conservation

• Resource

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A resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime

• renewable

• nonrenewable

• conservation

• resource

Which is a way we can protect our natural resources?

• litter
• recycle
• pollute
• contaminate

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Which of these are ways that humans use wood?

• paper and building houses
• eating and drinking
• cars and heat
• drinking and bathing

The upper limit of groundwater is referred to as the (a)  

• unsaturated zone
• saturated zone
• water table

A measure of how much water a rock can hold

• porosity

• permeability

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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.

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The water is able to flow the pore spaces, what type of rock is it?

• permeable

• impermeable

• aquifer

• geyser

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