Water Cycle and Aquatic Ecosystems Vocab Quiz

What is the process of changing a substance from a liquid to a gas called?

• Condensation

• Sublimation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

What is a stream or river that flows into a larger river called?

• Habitat

• Groundwater

• Watershed

• Tributary

What is the land area that supplies water to a river system called?

• Watershed

• Eutrophication

• Reservoir

• Divide

What is a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply called?

• Reservoir

• Impermeable

• Aquifer

• Permeable

What is the excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water called?

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Evapotranspiration

• Eutrophication

What is a layer of rocks and soil above the water table in which the pores contain air as well as water called?

• Saturated zone

• Unsaturated zone

• Aquifer

• Water table

What is the upper level of the saturated zone of groundwater called?

• Condensation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Water table

What is a body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater called?

• Artesian well

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Aquifer

What is a land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year called?

• Reservoir

• Wetland

• Impermeable

• Permeable

What is the process of changing from a solid to a gas without passing through an intermediate liquid phase called?

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Sublimation

• Evaporation