Water Resources VOCAB Quiz

What is groundwater?

• Water that is treated in water treatment plants

• Water that collects underground in cracks and spaces in rock

• Water that flows over land as surface water

• Water that is used for irrigation

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What is a watershed?

• A facility that treats raw or contaminated water

• A body of porous rock saturated with groundwater

• A land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers

• A human-created structure to promote marine life

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What is an aquifer?

• A human-created freshwater structure

• A body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater

• A land area that channels rainfall to rivers

• A facility that uses various technologies to treat water

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What is overfishing?

• Catching too many fish at once, depleting the breeding population

• The release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment

• The continuous circulation of water in the Earth-Atmosphere system

• The process by which water moves through soil

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What is a recharge zone?

• A land area that channels rainfall to creeks and rivers

• A human-created structure to promote marine life

• A place where water is able to seep into the ground and refill an aquifer

• A facility that treats raw or contaminated water

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What is the water table?

• A land area that channels rainfall to rivers

• A body of porous rock saturated with groundwater

• The boundary between water-saturated ground and unsaturated ground

• A facility that uses various technologies to treat water

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What is bioaccumulation?

• An increase in the concentration of a chemical in an organism over time

• The continuous circulation of water in the Earth-Atmosphere system

• The process of increasing the concentration of a substance in living tissue

• The release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment

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What is point source pollution?

• The process by which water moves through soil

• The continuous circulation of water in the Earth-Atmosphere system

• Pollution of water or air from many scattered sources

• Pollution that comes from a specific source of human activity

What is the hydrologic cycle?

• The continuous circulation of water in the Earth-Atmosphere system

• The process by which water moves through soil

• The release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment

• Catching too many fish at once, depleting the breeding population

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What letter represents groundwater

• D

• E

• G

• F

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