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WorksheetsGroundwater
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 21mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is the name of the area of groundwater where it is saturated?
a)
Zone of Saturation
b)
Zone of Aeration
c)
Water Table
2.
What is the area underground where there is not any water?
a)
Zone of Saturation
b)
Zone of Aeration
c)
Water
3.
The name of the area that is the upper level of the zone of saturation:
a)
Zone of Saturation
b)
Zone of Aeration
c)
Water Table
4.
Water stored below the Earth's surface is called:
a)
Groundwater
b)
Bogs
c)
Water in the ground
5.
When water soaks the ground it becomes groundwater through what process?
a)
Runoff
b)
Infiltration
c)
Transpiration
6.
The amount of space between soil is:
a)
Porosity
b)
Permeability
7.
The ability of a liquid to flow through a substance is:
a)
Porosity
b)
Permeability
8.
A material with a high porosity has:
a)
Little space
b)
A lot of space
9.
A substance has a low permeability when:
a)
Water can flow through easily
b)
Water CAN'T Flow through easily
10.
What is water that seeps into the ground into spaces between bits of rocks and soil?
a)
Water table
b)
Spring
c)
Aquifer
d)
Groundwater
11.
What is a hole dug below the water table that water seeps into?
a)
Well
b)
Spring
c)
Aquifer
d)
Reservoir
12.
What is the top of the water-filled spaces in the ground called?
a)
Groundwater
b)
Reservoir
c)
Water Table
d)
Well
13.
What is an underground layer of rock or soil filled with water called?
a)
Aquifer
b)
Spring
c)
Well
d)
Reservoir
14.
What is a place where groundwater seeps out of the ground called?
a)
Well
b)
Reservoir
c)
Aquifer
d)
Spring
15.
What are sources of water pollution?
a)
Precipitation as Acid rain
b)
Runoff water & Groundwater
c)
Industry & Household waste
d)
All of these
16.
What do we call the land area that supplies water to a river system?
a)
runoff
b)
recharge
c)
watershed
d)
valley
17.
What do we call water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking in?
a)
runoff
b)
discharge
c)
recharge
d)
tributary
18.
What mechanism controls the flow of water in runoff?
a)
gravity
b)
temperature
c)
permeability
d)
porosity
19.
What mechanism controls the flow of water in runoff?
a)
gravity
b)
temperature
c)
permeability
d)
porosity
20.
An aquifer is a(n)
a)
well in which water rises because of pressure
b)
underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water
c)
type of hot spring from which the water periodically erupts
d)
place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock
21.
A well in which groundwater rises because of pressure is called a(n)
a)
spring well
b)
geyser well
c)
artesian well
d)
cry well
22.
Which well(s) end(s) in a saturated zone?
a)
1 and 2
b)
1 only
c)
4 and 5
d)
1,3 and 5
23.
The materials that make up Aquifers A and B are
a)
permeable
b)
impermeable
24.
Which types of aquifers are in the most danger of becoming contaminated by pollutants?
a)
aquifers confined by a permeable layer
b)
unconfined aquifers
25.
What is the water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers called?
a)
Groundwater
b)
Water Table
c)
Precipitation
d)
Snow
26.
An underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water?
a)
Reservoir
b)
Aquifer
c)
Groundwater
d)
Watershed
27.
The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a
a)
water table
b)
trailer
c)
house
d)
watershed
28.
Because they have large connected pores, materials such as sand and gravel allow water to pass through. This is known as
a)
Permeable
b)
Impermeable
29.
Water from precipitation soaks down through permeable rock and soil layers. These layers contain air as well as water, so they are not saturated, or filled, with water. This top layer is thus called the
a)
unsaturated zone
b)
saturated zone
30.
At some depth, the water reaches a level where the pores in the ground are saturated with water, called the
a)
saturated zone
b)
unsaturated zone
31.
Any underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that holds water and allows it to flow is called an
a)
Acquifer
b)
Ocean
c)
Water table
d)
Water shed
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