Water Resources Quiz

Ability of rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open spaces or pores

• porosity

• groundwater

• river system

• aquifer

Rock that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

• porosity

• groundwater

• river system

• aquifer

The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces

• porosity

• groundwater

• river system

• aquifer

A flowing network of rivers and streams draining a river basin

• porosity

• groundwater

• river system

• aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The water beneath the Earth's surface

• porosity

• groundwater

• river system

• aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A structure that is built across a river to control a river's flow

• pathogen

• desalination

• dam

• reservoir

A microorganism, another organism, a virus or a protein that causes disease

• pathogen

• desalination

• dam

• reservoir

Contamination of water by waste matter or other material that is harmful to organisms that are exposed to the water

• artificial eutrophication

• wastewater

• point-source pollution

• water pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The accumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain

• artificial eutrophication

• wastewater

• point-source pollution

• biomagnification

Pollution that comes from a specific site

• artificial eutrophication

• wastewater

• point-source pollution

• nonpoint-source pollution