Water Cycle and Ground Water

What is the energy source for the water cycle?

• sun

• wind

• rain

• oceans

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What are the main components of the water cycle?

• runoff

• transpiration

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

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Runoff means...

• water vapor cooling to form clouds

• water running downhill

• water falling from the sky

• water heating up and rising as gas

Water that flows over the land to streams, rivers, and lakes

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Runoff

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Water that is found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock is called:

• Groundwater

• River

• Surface water

• Snow

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When rocks and soil become saturated, the ground water rises. The "top" of the underground water is called

• Spring

• Geyser

• Cave

• Water Table

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What is infiltration?

• The process by which water sinks into the ground

• The zone where there are still air spaces left between the particles.

• The process by which water vapor turns into liquid water and forms fog or clouds.

• The process by which water does not sink into the ground, but rather travels along the surface.

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The top of an aquifer is known as:

• the water table.

• an artesian well.

• the hydraulic gradient.

• a geyser.

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Some of the water that precipitates does not runoff into the rivers. It moves deep into the soil. What is this process called?

• Sublimation

• Transpiration

• Runoff

• Infiltration

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As permeability increases infiltration

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

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