Hydrology

What percentage of freshwater sources is trapped in glaciers/icecaps?

• 86.7%

• 78.7%

• 58.7%

• 68.7%

Explain at least 5 stages of the water cycle.

• Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Infiltration

• Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration

• Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation

• Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Infiltration, Transpiration

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What percentage of Earth is covered with water?

• 80%

• 60%

• 71%

• 70%

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What percentage of the water on Earth is fresh water?

• 97%

• 3%

• 1%

• 2%

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Underground geologic formation able to store and yield water.

• Aquifer

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Drawdown

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What term describes the ability to transmit water through connected pore spaces?

• Aquifer

• Permeability

• Porosity

• Water table

When it rains, a portion of the water seeps into the ground to replenish the Earth's

• unsaturated zone.

• water table.

• permeability.

• groundwater (aquifers).

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The water table is located

• at the top of the saturated zone

• at the bottom of the saturated zone

• at the top of the unsaturated zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The water table is located

• at the top of the saturated zone

• at the bottom of the saturated zone

• at the top of the unsaturated zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water?

• Reservoir

• Aquifer

• Groundwater

• Watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1