WorksheetsFlow of Freshwater
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How does non-point source pollution reach bodies of water?
a)
Runoff
b)
Water Treatment
c)
Evaporation
d)
Condensation
2.
What is the upper boundary of the zone of saturation?
a)
Alluvial plain
b)
Evaporation
c)
Nitrates
d)
Water Table
3.
A sinkhole is made when the water table is lower than what?
a)
A flood plain
b)
a cave
c)
a septic tank
d)
runoff
4.
What drains a watershed?
a)
Septic Tank
b)
Sewage Treatment Plant
c)
Water System
d)
Alluvial Fan
5.
Drip irrigation delivers water directly to what?
a)
the roots of the crop
b)
fields
c)
farmers
d)
aquifers
6.
What can animal wastes and fertilizers make?
a)
Sediment
b)
Nitrates
c)
Dissolved Calcium
d)
Deltas
7.
What is formed on dry land?
a)
an alluvial fan
b)
water pollution
c)
a terrace
d)
delta
8.
What is material carried in solution in a river called?
a)
a bed load
b)
a dissolved load
c)
a youthful load
d)
a suspended load
9.
What are pebbles and boulders carried in a stream called?
a)
a bed load
b)
a suspended load
c)
a youthful load
d)
a dissolved load
10.
What kind of load do muddy rivers carry?
a)
youthful
b)
Bed
c)
dissolved
d)
suspended
11.
rain, snow, sleet that fall from clouds
a)
percolation
b)
evaporation
c)
precipitation
d)
condenstation
12.
The downward movement of water through spaces in soil
a)
Percolation
b)
evaporation
c)
Precipitation
d)
condensation
13.
The change of cooled water vapor into water droplets that form clouds
a)
percolation
b)
evaporation
c)
precipitation
d)
consenstation
14.
The change in water from oceans and Earth's surface into water vapor
a)
percolation
b)
evaporation
c)
precipitation
d)
condenstation
15.
A layer of ________________is left behind whenever it floods.
a)
Cap rock
b)
Discharge
c)
Sediment
d)
Mud
16.
Materials that a stream carries in its water are called its____________________.
a)
Erosion
b)
Permeable
c)
Load
d)
Discharge
17.
Artesian Springs flow through a crack in the
a)
Cap rock
b)
discharge
c)
sediment
d)
watertable
18.
If a stream carries a large amount of water, it has a high ________________.
a)
Cap rock
b)
Discharge
c)
Sediment
d)
Load
19.
Rocks in an aquifer that let water flow through them
a)
Erosion
b)
Permeable
c)
Impremeable
d)
Load
20.
When sediment in a stream cuts away at rock, this action is called?
a)
Erosion
b)
Permeable
c)
Load
d)
Deposition
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