Quiz about Science Water & Ecoregions Test Review

Question 1

What is the water that collects in cracks and pores underground?

Accepted Answer

Groundwater

Answer

Runoff

Answer

Surface Water

Answer

Water Table

Question 2

What is the flow of water over the earth's surface?

Accepted Answer

Runoff

Answer

Groundwater

Answer

Surface Water

Answer

Watershed

Question 3

What water that collects on the surface of the ground?

Accepted Answer

Surface Water

Answer

Groundwater

Answer

Runoff

Answer

Aquifer

Question 4

What allows water to flow through it?

Accepted Answer

Permeable

Answer

Aquifer

Answer

Watershed

Answer

Water Table

Question 5

What is the top of the saturation zone, below which water fills all open spaces?

Accepted Answer

Water Table

Answer

Permeable

Answer

Watershed

Answer

Aquifer

Question 6

What is an are of land where the surface water and groundwater drain into a particular body of water?

Accepted Answer

Watershed

Answer

Permeable

Answer

Water Table

Answer

Aquifer

Question 7

What is a layer of permeable rock that holds and filters water?

Accepted Answer

Aquifer

Answer

Permeable

Answer

Water Table

Answer

Watershed

Question 8

What is moving in the direction in which a stream or river flows?

Accepted Answer

Downstream

Answer

Tributary

Answer

Percolation

Answer

Upstream

Question 9

What is filtering?

Accepted Answer

Percolation

Answer

Downstream

Answer

Tributary

Answer

Upstream

Question 10

What is a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake?

Accepted Answer

Tributary

Answer

Downstream

Answer

Percolation

Answer

Upstream

Question 11

What is in the opposite direction from that in which a stream or river flows; nearer to the source?

Accepted Answer

Upstream

Answer

Downstream

Answer

Tributary

Answer

Percolation

Question 12

What is dropping sediments?

Accepted Answer

Deposition

Answer

Weathering

Answer

Erosion

Answer

Ecoregion

Question 13

What is breaking of rock?

Accepted Answer

Weathering

Answer

Deposition

Answer

Erosion

Answer

Ecoregion

Question 14

What is moving sediments by wind, water, gravity, or glaciers?

Accepted Answer

Erosion

Answer

Deposition

Answer

Weathering

Answer

Ecoregion

Question 15

How does human activity affect the groundwater and the surface water in a watershed? If we ___ the water (trash, chemicals, waste), it will potentially make our drinking water ___. It can also make it uninhabitable for plants and aquatic animals.

Accepted Answer

pollute

unsafe

Answer

stinksafe

Answer

smell

unsafe

Answer

toxicsafe

Question 16

How do our vehicles affect our groundwater? (check 3 that apply)

Accepted Answer

makes water unsafe to use

Accepted Answer

leak oil, gasoline, or chemicals

Accepted Answer

pollutes the groundwater

Answer

filters water and makes it cleaner

Question 17

Excess fertilizer from lawns in the water will cause algae growth to increase. This growth will block out much of the sun, causing other water plants to die.

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

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Both

Answer

Neither

Question 18

Most American cities now use water treatment facilities for what main purpose?

Accepted Answer

filter/clean used water

Answer

return lost fish to the ocean

Answer

to recharge aquifers

Answer

to make bottled water

Question 19

What Causes Water Table to Rise

Accepted Answer

Precipitation

Answer

Drought

Answer

Pumping it from watering crops

Answer

The sun

Question 20

What 2 Causes Water Table to Lower

Accepted Answer

Drought

Accepted Answer

Pumping it for watering crops

Answer

Precipitation

Answer

The sun

Question 21

What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated?

Accepted Answer

Saturated is filled with water where unsaturated is not.

Answer

Both contain water, but unsaturated has less air.

Answer

Unsaturated is filled with water where saturated is not.

Answer

Neither contain water, just ice

Question 22

Which number represents the Water Table from image?

Accepted Answer

2

Answer

1

Answer

3

Answer

4

Question 23

If a farmer uses the groundwater to water his crops, how will this effect the water table?

Accepted Answer

it will make it lower

Answer

it will not effect the water table

Answer

it will make it rise

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it will make it twice as high

Question 24

In this watershed diagram, which letter represents UPSTREAM.

Accepted Answer

F

Answer

G

Answer

C

Answer

E

Question 25

In this watershed diagram, which letter represents DOWNSTREAM?

Accepted Answer

G

Answer

F

Answer

A

Answer

C

Question 26

In this diagram, which letters represents tributaries?

Accepted Answer

C

Accepted Answer

E

Accepted Answer

D

Answer

A

Question 27

If pollution was detected in the water at point D, what location would be the likely source of the pollution? (answer with a letter location)

Accepted Answer

C

Answer

F

Answer

E

Answer

G

Question 28

Would a farm that uses heavy amounts of fertilizer and pesticides on their crops located at point D effect people at point E? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

No, E is on a separate tributary so the water from D never passes by point E.

Answer

No, E is upstream from point D.

Answer

Yes, the water from D will effect all points on the map.

Answer

Yes, the polluted water from point D will flow by point E.

Question 29

What is depositional feature is created by wind? Where in Texas would you likely find these?

Accepted Answer

Dunes in the Gulf Coast (beaches), Big Bend, or Panhandle Plains

Answer

Deltas in the Piney Woods or Gulf Coast

Answer

Caves in the Edwards Plateau

Answer

none of these

Question 30

The Pineywoods ecoregion has a lot of ____

that helps slow down the amount of erosion that occurs there.

Accepted Answer

vegetation

Answer

soil

Answer

pollution

Answer

sun

Question 31

Many caves form underground in the Edwards Aquifer (Hill Country Ecoregion). What causes these to form?

____ seeps down into the ground and dissolves limestone.

Accepted Answer

Acid Rain

Answer

Water

Answer

Wind

Answer

Gravity

Question 32

Many canyons, including Palo Duro Canyon in Texas and The Grand Canyon were formed by what erosional agents (2)?

Accepted Answer

Wind

Accepted Answer

Water

Answer

Gravity

Answer

Glaciers

Question 33

where would you describe the COLDER climate characteristics in Texas:

Accepted Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

3

Answer

4

Question 34

Where wold you describe the DRIER climate characteristics in Texas?

Accepted Answer

2

Answer

1

Answer

3

Answer

4

Question 35

Where would you describe the HOTTER climate characteristics in Texas?

Accepted Answer

3

Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

4

Question 36

Where would you describe the WETTER/HUMID climate characteristics in Texas?

Accepted Answer

4

Answer

1

Answer

2

Answer

3

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