Follow up-groundwater and aquifer notes

Groundwater is water that has permeated or ................. ( filtered through) into the ground. It is an important part of the water cycle.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

There are 3 factors that determine whether a source of groundwater will be a viable (usable) resource: what are the 3 factors?

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• water quality, permeability, and saturation zone

• quantity, permeability and water quality

• quantity, ease of withdrawal and water quality

• permeability, ease of withdrawal and water quality

True or false: There is less water underground than in all the lakes and streams on the Earth’s surface.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Permeability is the capacity of water to flow through earth materials.

Water can flow readily through materials with well connected ..... space or many fractures.

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

True or False: Connections between pore spaces are wider in coarse-grained material (gravels) than fine-grained material (sand).

• True

• False

FILL IN THE BLANK-High ................. does not always go hand in hand with high ...............

• porosity, permeability

• water quality, porosity

• permeability, porosity

• porosity, water quality

Match the following

• confined aquifer

• Groundwater is _______ in bodies of rock and/or sediment called ______,

• high permeability

• A ________ ________is between permeable and impermeable  layers of rock.

  
  

• stored, aquifers

• An __________  _______ is created from water seeping  from the ground surface directly above the aquifer. 

  
  

• unconfined aquifer

• Good aquifers have _____ _________.

  
  

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Match the following

• river basin

• The _________ zone (aka. zone of aeration) is located above the saturated zone and the pore spaces are generally _______  filled with water.

• unsaturation, partly

• A ______ ______ is the portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries.

  It encompasses the entire land surface drained  by the various streams and creeks that flow downhill into one another, and eventually into one river.

  
  

• saturation, water

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  The ________  zone is where the pore  spaces are filled with _____.

  
  

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The final destination of the water drained by a river basin is an _______ or an ocean. A river basin sends all the water falling on the surrounding land into a central river and out to the sea.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

There are __ river basins in North Carolina.