Chapter 11 Water

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

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An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.

• water table

• aquifer

• watershed

• river

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Water that stands or flows across the Earth’s surface.

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Runoff

• Divide

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______________________ is the process of removing the salt from ocean water.

• water pollution

• point source pollution

• desalination

• porosity

______________________ is water that is beneath the earth’s surface in sediment or rock formation.

• watershed

• water pollution

• wastewater

• groundwater

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_________________ is the area of land that is drained by a river.

• surface water

• watershed

• dam

• wastewater

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______________________ is an underground formation that contains groundwater.

• aquifer

• point source pollution

• nonpoint source pollution

• potable

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What is all of the land area whose water drains into a stream system?

• Runoff

• Watershed

• Divide

• Suspension

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What is this?

• A picture

• Water Cycle

• Correct Answer

• Wrong Answer

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______________________ is a structure that blocks and controls the flow of water.

• potable

• dam

• wastewater

• point source pollution

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