Groundwater Quiz

1. What is the boundary located between the saturated zone and the unsaturated zone called?

• A. groundwater

• B. water table

• C. saturated zone

• D. aquifer

• E. capillary fringe

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A well is a hole that is dug below the water table and that fills with ______.

• A. groundwater

• B. water table

• C. aquifer

• D. surface water

• E. rainwater

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3. What term belongs in blank #1?

• A. water table

• B. saturated zone

• C. unsaturated zone

• D. aquifer

• E. capillary fringe

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4. What term belongs in blank #2?

• A. water table

• B. saturated zone

• C. aquifer

• D. infiltration

• E. permeability

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5. What is a rock layer that stores and allows the flows of groundwater?

• A. groundwater

• B. saturated zone

• C. aquifer

• D. water table

• E. impermeable layer

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6. For an aquifer to be functional, it must have a high degree of _____________________ and __________________________.

• A. porosity

• B. permeability

• C. sunlight

• D. density

• E. saturation

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7. Low temperatures and higher salt content of water, means the more __________________ it has, and it will sink underneath warm ocean currents.

• A. sunlight

• B. gravity

• C. density

• D. pressure

• E. salinity

8. Which 2 factors are the cause for the global movement of water? _______ & _________

• A. permeability

• B. sunlight

• C. gravity

• D. density

• E. temperature

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What is the best definition of a water table?

• The level to which a river rises when it floods

• The boundary between the land and the ocean

• The top of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The bottom of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The top of the unsaturated zone in an aquifer

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What is the water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers called?

• Groundwater
• Water Table
• Precipitation
• Snow

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