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WorksheetsUnit 3: Hydrosphere
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What follows evaporation during the water cycle? How does this occur?
a)
Water evaporates into water vapor
b)
Water vapor condenses and forms a cloud
c)
Water precipitates to the ground
d)
Water runs down into the hydrosphere
2.
After precipitation occurs, water that does not run off into the hydrosphere can be stored as _______?
a)
Ground Water
b)
Evaporation
c)
Condensation
d)
Snow
3.
What is A?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
4.
What is B?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
5.
What is C?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
6.
What is D?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
7.
How much of the earth's water is freshwater?
a)
50 %
b)
3 %
c)
97 %
d)
93 %
8.
What part of the water cycle can carry pollutants from your yard to streams and rivers?
a)
evaporation
b)
runoff
c)
precipitation
d)
condensation
9.
Where is most of Earth's freshwater located?
a)
Oceans
b)
Rivers
c)
Lakes
d)
Frozen in Glaciers
10.
When plants release excess water it is called
a)
evaporation
b)
transpiration
c)
condensation
d)
water cycle
11.
An area of land that drains into a body of water.
a)
mouth
b)
point-source pollution
c)
watershed
d)
headwaters
12.
Most of the energy that drives the water cycle comes from the
a)
Earth's core
b)
Equator
c)
Sun
d)
Earth's oceans
13.
What is directly above the saturated zone?
a)
The water table
b)
The unsaturated zone
c)
The imperamabilty carpet
d)
The saturated zone
14.
What is permability?
a)
The amount of days in between a llama cycle.
b)
The water underground
c)
The water between particles
d)
The amount of space between particles allowing water to go through
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 is the name of the area of groundwater where it is saturated?
a)
Zone of Saturation
b)
Zone of Aeration
c)
Water Table
17.
The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a
a)
water table
b)
trailer
c)
house
d)
watershed
18.
The ability of a material to transmit water through interconnected pores is called
a)
capacity
b)
competence
c)
permeability
d)
porosity
19.
Which is most likely an example of point source pollution?
a)
fertilizer sprayed onto a field
b)
water runoff from a city street
c)
a pipe flowing into a river
20.
Which describes an estuary?
a)
A large body of fresh water.
b)
A large body of salt water.
c)
The wide, lower course of a river where fresh and salt water mix.
21.
Which best describes the water found in estuaries?
a)
brackish
b)
saltwater
c)
freshwater
22.
Which best explains what happens to nutrients in the ocean as a result
of upwelling?
of upwelling?
a)
Upwelling carries nutrients to coral reefs.
b)
Upwelling carries nutrients to the ocean bottom.
c)
Upwelling carries nutrients to the intertidal zone.
d)
Upwelling carries nutrients to the surface of the ocean.
23.
Ocean's cover what percent of the Earth's surface?
a)
70 %
b)
60 %
c)
10 %
d)
none of the above
24.
El Nino is characterized by ___ water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
a)
warm
b)
cool
c)
normal
25.
Aquifers store ____ water.
a)
ground
b)
lake
c)
ocean
d)
glacier
26.
Which of the following is not a permeable surface?
a)
soil
b)
sand
c)
pavement
d)
moss
27.
What is Point-Source pollution?
a)
pollution coming from a specific one site
b)
unsure of the places the pollution is coming from
c)
Oil spills in to the ocean
d)
None of the above
28.
Eutrophication
a)
The environment around an ocean becomes contaminated
b)
When an animal has a high level of pollution inside it
c)
When the ocean is polluted
d)
The enrichment of an ecosystem with chemical nutrients
29.
Which contributes most in supporting life on the deep ocean floor?
a)
cold water temperatures
b)
extreme water pressure
c)
hydrothermal vents
d)
lack of predators
30.
Subsurface ocean currents continually circulate from the warm waters near the equator to the colder waters in other parts of the world. What is the main cause of these currents?
a)
Differences in th
topography along
the ocean floor
topography along
the ocean floor
b)
Movement of the jet stream
c)
Differences in
density of
ocean water
density of
ocean water
d)
Rotation of the Earth on its axis
31.
_______________ are caused by earthquakes on the ocean floor, volcanic eruptions, or underwater landslides.
a)
tides
b)
waves
c)
tsunamis
d)
surface currents
32.
What is A
a)
zone of aeration
b)
zone of saturation
c)
water table
33.
Which of the following causes the Coriolis Effect?
a)
Earth's Revolution
b)
Earth's Rotation
c)
Earth's Temperature
d)
Earth's Core
34.
In addition to salinity, what factor affects the density of seawater?
a)
depth
b)
latitude
c)
temperature
d)
salt content
35.
Because of the Coriolis effect, ocean currents in the Northern Hemisphere are deflected...
a)
clockwise
b)
counter clockwise
c)
north
d)
south
36.
Ocean currents that move toward the poles are
a)
warm
b)
cold
c)
warm in the N Hemisphere cold in the S Hemisphere
d)
cold in the N Hem. warm in the S Hem.
37.
What is true about an ocean current that is moving toward the equator?
a)
It is warm
b)
It is fast
c)
It is cold
d)
It is slow
38.
The Gulf stream carries _____________ water from the east coast of The United States to the West coast of Europe.
a)
Cold
b)
Warm
c)
Freezing
d)
Fresh
39.
Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It moves water around the globe.
a)
California Current
b)
Global Conveyor Belt
c)
Surface Currents
d)
Gulf Stream
40.
water pollution can damage...
a)
ecosystems
b)
habitats
c)
foodchains
d)
all of the above
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