Ground and Surface Water

The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapo-transpiration is called the...

• carbon cycle
• nitrogen cycle
• water cycle
• rock cycle

What is occurring at A in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• evaporation
• condensation

What process is happening at C in the diagram?

• runoff
• precipitation
• condensation
• transpiration

Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…

• watershed
• surface water
• groundwater
• water cycle

What is the source of groundwater?

• rain, snow, melted glaciers
• ocean water
• icebergs
• water from fossilized animals

An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.

• water table
• aquifer
• watershed
• river

The area of an aquifer in which rock pores are completely filled with water.

• water table
• watershed
• zone of saturation
• surface water

The top boundary of the zone of saturation in an aquifer which can fluctuate based on precipitation and the amount of draw from wells

• aquifer
• water table
• watershed
• drainage system

Groundwater is found in permeable rock.  Permeable means…

• porous
• nothing can pass throughc
• caves and caverns
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How can surface pollutants contaminate groundwater?

• runoff with water and penetrate soil
• seep into ground and rock
• spread in aquifer to contaminate large areas
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