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WorksheetsUnit 8a Vocabulary
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
a)
Aquifer
b)
Divide
c)
Reservoir
d)
Channel
2.
The path that a stream follows.
a)
Water Table
b)
Channel
c)
Aquifer
d)
Groundwater
3.
The boundary between drainage areas (watersheds) that have streams that flow in opposite directions.
a)
Channel
b)
Potable
c)
Divide
d)
Thermal Pollution
4.
An increase in the amount of nutrients, such as nitrates, in a marine or aquatic ecosystem.
a)
Divide
b)
Infiltration (Leaching)
c)
Water Pollution
d)
Eutrophication
5.
The water that is beneath Earth's surface.
a)
Groundwater
b)
Aquifer
c)
Surface Water
d)
Potable
6.
The process by which surface water seeps into the ground (infiltration) and moves down through the ground layers (leaching).
a)
Channel
b)
Infiltration (Leaching)
c)
Watershed
d)
Reservoir
7.
Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site; an example is pollution that reaches a body of water from streets and storm sewers.
a)
Eutrophication
b)
Aquifer
c)
Nonpoint-source Pollution
d)
Point-source Pollution
8.
Pollution that comes from a specific site; an example is pollution from factory water pipe into a stream.
a)
Divide
b)
Nonpoint-source Pollution
c)
Water Table
d)
Point-source Pollution
9.
Suitable for drinking.
a)
Potable
b)
Point-source Pollution
c)
Watershed
d)
Infiltration (Leaching)
10.
An artificial body of water that usually forms behind a dam.
a)
Eutrophication
b)
Reservoir
c)
Tributary
d)
Groundwater
11.
All the bodies of freshwater, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground.
a)
Aquifer
b)
Groundwater
c)
Surface Water
d)
Tributary
12.
A temperature increase in a body of water that is caused by human activity and that has a harmful effect on water quality and on the ability of that body of water to support life.
a)
Channel
b)
Nonpoint-source Pollution
c)
Infiltration (Leaching)
d)
Thermal Pollution
13.
A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream.
a)
Tributary
b)
Eutrophication
c)
Divide
d)
Potable
14.
Waste matter or other material that is introduced into water and that is harmful to organisms that live in, drink, or are exposed to the water.
a)
Tributary
b)
Water Pollution
c)
Water Table
d)
Aquifer
15.
The area of land that is drained by a river system.
a)
Water Pollution
b)
Water Table
c)
Watershed
d)
Reservoir
16.
The upper surface of underground water; the upper boundary of the zone of saturation.
a)
Aquifer
b)
Divide
c)
Thermal Pollution
d)
Water Table
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