Hydrosphere Unit Test

What would cause the water table to lower?

• High rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation

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Why is water from an underground aquifer more likely to be cleaner than water from other sources?

• because it forms where fresh and salt water meet

• it receives water directly from precipitation

• it rises to the surface near the ocean

• pollutants are filtered by rock soil and sand the water passes through

Which best describes characteristics of a river basin?

• the land drained by a river and its tributaries

• A deep lake that has slow water flow

• the land at the mouth of a river where water flows into the ocean

• the land formed as a result of a river flooding

The change of water from a liquid to a gas.

• evaporation

• precipitation

• condensation

• transpiration

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What part of the water cycle does this picture show?

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

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Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all examples of  ________________. 

• evaporation

• condensation

• accumulation

• precipitation

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The measure of how acidic or basic a substance is.

• Turbidity

• Dissolved oxygen

• pH

• Temperature

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The "cloudiness" or clarity of the water.

• Turbidity

• Cohesion

• Dissolved Oxygen

• Nitrates

What part of the water cycle can carry pollutants from your yard or farm fields to streams and rivers?

• evaporation

• runoff

• precipitation

• condensation

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An area of land that drains into a large body of water.

• mouth

• point-source pollution

• watershed

• headwaters

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