Groundwater/Surface Water/WED

If we dump oil in our yard, how does this affect our environment?

• Rots fence posts

• goes into soil and pollutes groundwater

• kills the weeds

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Some people use groundwater by using wells and pumping it into their homes. What would cause a big change in the amount of water available.

• High daily temperatures

• freezing temperatures

• drought

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which of the following are examples of physcial weathering?

• Insets eating leaves

• a kid pushing around sand

• ice fracturing a rock

• acid rain dissolving limestone

In which layer would you most likely find an aquifer?

• Rock and soil not saturated with groundwater

• porous rock saturated with groundwater

• impermiable rock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

In order for a fabric plant to keep from polluting a watershed, where should they build?

• The highest point in the watersehd

• Downstream from a village

• closest to a freshwater stream

• near the main street of town

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

If you have an aquifer that has three wells, and you add three more, what would that do to the water table.

• the water table would increase

• the water table would decrease

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Run off from farm lands into rivers and wetlands will affect surface in what way?

• crops reduce erosion, increasing amount of soil in the river

• crops absorb pure water, causing remaining water to contain more salt

• excess fertilizer is carried by runoff into the river, causing growth of algae

• excess crop material accumulates at the riverbanks slowing down the river

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which of the following are true about watersheds, click all that apply!

• A watershed can be fed by both ground and surface water

• Divide is the boundary that separating two watersheds

• Plant life alters the flow of water causing erosion

• human activity can affect the flow oof water through a watershed

Which of the following would have teh greatest permeablity?

• Gravel

• Fine Sand

• Clay

• Solid Rock

An area of land was covered in grass, due to a fire the grass is now all gone. What will most likely occur in this area?

• Deposition of soil

• Erosion of soil

• weathering of rock

• exfoliation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4