Groundwater and Surface Water

Groundwater and Surface Water

Multiple Choice

What is groundwater?

• all the bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above the ground

• the water that is beneath Earth's surface

• the area of land that is drained by a river system

• a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

Multiple Choice

Water above Earth's surface is called

• tributary

• surface water

• watershed

• groundwater

Multiple Choice

When water flows across the surface of the earth it is called?

• Watershed

• River

• Run Off

• Rain

Multiple Choice

Area of land where surface water and groundwater drains into a river system.

• Runoff

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Watershed