Water Cycle and Groundwater Quiz

What do you call it when water evaporates from plants during photosynthesis?

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Rain

A large group of small water droplets suspended in the atmosphere?

• Storm

• Groundwater

• Accumulation

• Cloud

What do you call it when evaporated water turns into small water droplets?

• Infiltration

• Condensation

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

Water that flows downhill in the form of rivers and streams is called _________.

• groundwater
• fluvial
• infiltration
• runoff

Label the processes of the Water Cycle indicated by arrows in the image.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

Runoff

Transpiration

Rivers

Evaporation

Infiltration

Condensation

Groundwater

Accumulation

Precipitation

Transportation

Water that falls from the sky to the ground in liquid or solid state.

• Evaporation

• Accumulation

• Precipitation

• Infiltration

A place where the water table intersects the ground surface and where a natural flow of groundwater results is called:

• a spring.

• a geyser.

• an aquatard.

• a fissure.

What is the most common method for removing groundwater?

• a well bored into the zone of saturation

• accessing the water table by use of low-grade explosives

• building a water tower

• damming up a river

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 top of the unsaturated zone in an aquifer

What would cause the water table to lower?

• Periods of low precipitation

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation