Water Cycle and Ground Water

Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water.

Which process is represented by letter F?

• Capillarity

• Infiltration

• Condensation

• Vaporization

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What does letter X represent?

• the water table

• a flood plain

• sea level

• impermeable rock

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Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water. If the surface soil is saturated and precipitation increases, there will be

• a decrease in the amount of groundwater

• a decrease in the surface elevation of the lake

• an increase in the rate of capillarity

• an increase in the amount of runoff

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Base your answer to the next 4 questions on the diagram below, which shows a model of the water cycle. Letters A through F represent some processes of the water cycle. Letter X indicates the top of the underground zone that is saturated with water.

The processes of transpiration and evaporation are represented by letters

• A & B

• B & E

• C & A

• D & E

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Which of the following processes most directly affects the amount of water entering earth's atmosphere?

• precipitation and runoff

• condensation and precipitation

• transpiration and evaporation

• infiltration and recharge

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Surface runoff will generally be greatest when the

• rainfall is light and the ground is permeable

• infiltration rate is greater than the rainfall rate

• slope of the land is too great to permit infiltration

• ground is permeable and unsaturated

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What is the best definition of a water table?

• The level to which a river rises when it floods

• The boundary between the land and the ocean

• The top of the saturated zone in an aquifer

• The top of the unsaturated zone in an aquifer

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What would cause the water table to lower?

• Periods of low precipitation

• Low rates of evaporation and transpiration

• Increasing amounts of runoff

• A heavy rainstorm with a lot of precipitation

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Much of the water that falls on the ground as precipitation __________.

• enters the ground through the process of infiltration

• evaporates back into the atmosphere

• becomes runoff and finds its way back to the ocean

• forms small pools

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In the diagram, the area labeled A is called the __________.

• zone of infiltration

• recharge zone

• zone of saturation

• zone of permeability

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