Question 1

Which of these are examples of surface water?

Accepted Answer

River

Answer

Water under the Earth's Surface

Answer

Wells

Answer

Aquifer

Question 2

Ground water becomes surface water by ______________.

Accepted Answer

Emerging through a spring

Answer

Soaking into sand soil

Answer

Freezing and expanding to the surface

Answer

Evaporating, forming clouds, and returning to Earth as precipitation

Question 3

How does polluted surface water affect groundwater?

Accepted Answer

The pollutants can soak into the ground and contaminate the groundwater

Answer

The pollutants erode the soil, exposing the groundwater, which then evaporates

Answer

The pollutants cause the surface water to evaporate more quickly

Answer

The pollutants in surface water prevent the surface water from soaking into the soil

Question 4

What is an area of land that supplies water into a river system?

Accepted Answer

Watershed

Answer

Run Off

Answer

Groundwater

Answer

Surface Water

Question 5

What is a chemical substance that is added to soil or land to make plants grow faster?

Accepted Answer

Fertilizer

Answer

Contamination

Answer

Pollution

Answer

Run Off

Question 6

Which type of rock lets water and other materials pass through it?

Accepted Answer

Permeable

Answer

Red

Answer

Blue

Answer

Impermeable

Question 7

True or False, Human activities can impact the ground water?

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 8

Fertilizer can seep through the ground to reach groundwater, when fertilizer reaches groundwater. What effect can it have?

Accepted Answer

Fertilizer can cause groundwater to become undrinkable.

Answer

Fertilizer can cause groundwater to reverse flow

Answer

Fertilizer can cause groundwater to freeze.

Answer

Fertilizer can cause groundwater to become pure

Question 9

Surface water becomes ground water by

Accepted Answer

Soaking into the sand or soil

Answer

Freezing and expanding to the surface

Answer

Emerging through a spring

Answer

Evaporating, forming cloud, and returning to Earth as precipitation

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT part of watershed?

Accepted Answer

Clouds

Answer

Lakes

Answer

Land

Answer

Rivers

Question 11

Pollutants from a factory that enter the water in a watershed will have a negative effect on which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Local Pond Life

Answer

Available space for crops

Answer

Rainfall rates

Answer

Direction of river flow

Question 12

Which of these objects are NOT impermeable?

Accepted Answer

Top layer of rocks that lets water pass through

Answer

Cement

Answer

Clay

Answer

Bucket

Question 13

Does impermeable rock let water pass?

Accepted Answer

No

Answer

Yes

Question 14

Does a watershed contain land?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Answer

No

Question 15

Do humans contaminate water sources?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Answer

Littering

Answer

Gas

Answer

Oils

Question 16

An aquifer is defined as _______________.

Accepted Answer

An underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that stores water in usable quantities.

Answer

An area that frequently has earthquakes causing fractures in the bedrock.

Answer

An area that is drained by rivers and streams which flow into a lake or the ocean.

Answer

An impermeable layer of solid limestone that is underground

Question 17

Water enters the aquifer primarily through the _____________.

Accepted Answer

Recharge zone

Answer

Drainage or watershed area

Answer

Discharge zone

Answer

Artesian zone

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