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WorksheetsAquifers and Springs
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
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
2.
Water stored below the Earth's surface is called:
a)
Groundwater
b)
Bogs
c)
Water in the ground
3.
When water soaks the ground it becomes groundwater through what process?
a)
Runoff
b)
Infiltration
c)
Transpiration
4.
A substance has a low permeability when:
a)
Water can flow through easily
b)
Water CAN'T Flow through easily
5.
What is a hole dug below the water table that water seeps into?
a)
Well
b)
Spring
c)
Aquifer
d)
Reservoir
6.
What is an underground layer of rock or soil filled with water called?
a)
Aquifer
b)
Spring
c)
Well
d)
Reservoir
7.
What is a place where groundwater seeps out of the ground called?
a)
Well
b)
Reservoir
c)
Aquifer
d)
Spring
8.
What are sources of water pollution?
a)
Precipitation as Acid rain
b)
Runoff water & Groundwater
c)
Industry & Household waste
d)
All of these
9.
What do we call the land area that supplies water to a river system?
a)
runoff
b)
recharge
c)
watershed
d)
valley
10.
What do we call water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking in?
a)
runoff
b)
discharge
c)
recharge
d)
tributary
11.
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
12.
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
13.
The materials that make up Aquifers A and B are
a)
permeable
b)
impermeable
14.
Which types of aquifers are in the most danger of becoming contaminated by pollutants?
a)
aquifers confined by a permeable layer
b)
unconfined aquifers
c)
Cave
d)
pollutants don't matter
15.
During _____________ the soil water storage is filling
a)
surplus
b)
deficicit
c)
recharge
d)
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