WorksheetsRivers and Groundwater
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapo-transpiration is called the...
a)
carbon cycle
b)
nitrogen cycle
c)
water cycle
d)
rock cycle
2.
What is occurring at A in the diagram?
a)
runoff
b)
precipitation
c)
evaporation
d)
condensation
3.
What process is happening at C in the diagram?
a)
runoff
b)
precipitation
c)
condensation
d)
transpiration
4.
The processes of the Water Cycle are…
a)
physical changes
b)
chemical changes
c)
phase changes
d)
physical and phase changes
5.
H2O is a/an…
a)
element
b)
molecule of a compound
c)
atom
d)
molecule of an element
6.
There are ____ elements and ____ atoms in H2O.
a)
2/2
b)
2/3
c)
3/2
d)
3/4
7.
An area of land in which all of the water falling or flowing over it drains to the same location is a/an…
a)
watershed
b)
watertable
c)
river
d)
aquifer
8.
Water that is located in the ground in the pores within rock is called…
a)
watershed
b)
surface water
c)
groundwater
d)
water cycle
9.
What is the source of groundwater?
a)
rain, snow, melted glaciers
b)
ocean water
c)
icebergs
d)
water from fossilized animals
10.
An underground layer of permeable rock that holds groundwater which can be extracted by drilling a well.
a)
water table
b)
aquifer
c)
watershed
d)
river
11.
The area of an aquifer in which rock pores are completely filled with water.
a)
water table
b)
watershed
c)
zone of saturation
d)
surface water
12.
The top boundary of the zone of saturation in an aquifer which can fluctuate based on precipitation and the amount of draw from wells
a)
aquifer
b)
water table
c)
watershed
d)
drainage system
13.
Groundwater is found in permeable rock. Permeable means…
a)
porous
b)
nothing can pass throughc
c)
caves and caverns
d)
answer not shown
14.
How can surface pollutants contaminate groundwater?
a)
runoff with water and penetrate soil
b)
seep into ground and rock
c)
spread in aquifer to contaminate large areas
d)
all answers are correct
15.
Groundwater contamination…
a)
is easily cleaned up
b)
is difficult to clean or remove
c)
is not a problem for modern people
d)
does not affect the United States
16.
How do people extract groundwater?
a)
groundwater cannot be extracted
b)
by drilling wells and pumping water out of the ground
c)
mining water from the Earth
d)
answer not shown
17.
Excessive pumping of groundwater can cause subsidence. This is a problem in Texas and Louisiana. What would happen to homes and buildings that were built on land which subsided?
a)
settling and breaking of foundations
b)
flooding
c)
both answers are correct
d)
neither answer is correct
18.
What do all the sources of groundwater contamination shown have in common?
a)
caused by humans so it is preventable
b)
naturally occurring so it cannot be prevented
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