Edwards Aquifer Quiz

The Edwards Aquifer is divided into these three zones:

• contributing zone, recharge zone and artesian zone

• Deposit zone, Water table, Artesian zone

• Contributing zone, Recharge zone, Deposit zone

• It is not divided

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What is the contributing zone?

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What is the recharge zone?

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How much of the recharge occurs when streams and rivers cross the permeable formation and go underground?

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How does the remaining percentage of recharge occur?

• Rain falls directly onto the outcrop

• It is replenished from the lakes and rivers

• The ocean

• Through evaporation

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What do sinkholes do that is beneficial for aquifers?

• 1. They can quickly receive large volumes of recharge during rainstorms and tramsit the recharge directly into the aquifer.

• They cut off a large supply of water from the aquifer

• There is no benefit and they need to be removed or filled

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What are artesian wells?

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What are some other types of natural discharge in the artesian zone?

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When was the third type of blind catfish found in well more than 1,000 feet deep?

• 2024

• 2017

• 2016

• 2020

What is water’s chemical name?