Groundwater & The Water Cycle

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

The processes of the Water Cycle are…

• physical changes
• chemical changes
• phase changes
• physical and phase changes

H₂O is a/an…

• element
• molecule of a compound
• atom
• molecule of an element

There are ____ elements and ____ atoms in H₂O.

• 2/2
• 2/3
• 3/2
• 3/4

An area of land in which all of the water falling or flowing over it drains to the same location is a/an…

• watershed
• watertable
• river
• aquifer

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