Groundwater, Permeability & Porosity

As permeability increases

• Infiltration decreases and runoff decreases

• Infiltration increases and runoff decreases

• Infiltration decreases and runoff increases

• Infiltration increases and runoff increases

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the relationship between particle size and porosity?

• As particle size increases permeability increases

• As particle size decreases permeability increases

• There is no relationship

What type of sediment tends to be the most impermeable?

• sand

• clay

• silt

• rocks

How does groundwater occur?

• It doesn't occur

• Rain seeps into the ground until it is completely saturated

• it just happens at random

• When water runs off the surface due to maximum saturation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

If water can easily move between cracks of a rock, we can say that...

• water is permeable

• rock is permeable

• rock is impermeable

• water is impermeable

A porous rock can be impermeable

• true

• false

______ is more permeable since water passes through it

• gravel

• sand

• clay

• Silt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is porosity

• Rocks

• The percent of the volume of open spaces in rock or sediment

• Ability rock sediment fluids pass through open spaces/pores

• Nothing

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Define permeability

• Water

• Nothing

• Percent of volume of open spaces in rock or sediment

• Ability rock/sediment fluids pass through open spaces/pores

How does porosity affect permeability?

• Soil has to be porous to be permeable

• No effect

• Some kinds of soil can be porous but NOT permeable

• Soil has to be permeable to be porous