Study Questions: Groundwater

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The quiz about groundwater will involve questions like the ones that follow.

Note: Whenever you see reference to Tarbuck, in the following questions, that means the eText of the textbook by Tarbuck and others, Earth

1. Most of the water on Earth is located in ____.
2. Most of the fresh water on Earth is in ___.
3. Most of the liquid fresh water on Earth is ___.
4. Water that flows across the ground surface, usually during or after a rainstorm or during the melting of snow, is called ____.
5. Liquid water is transferred to the atmosphere through the process of _____.
6. Frozen water is transferred to the atmosphere through the process of _____.
7. Water held in a plant is transferred to the atmosphere through the process of _____.
8. Water soaks into the ground in the process of ____.
9. Addition of water to an aquifer is called ____.
10. An ___ is a rock/sediment unit from which potable water can be produced at a profit.
11. In a _____ aquifer, there is a layer with low permeability between the aquifer and the ground surface.
12. Water that falls as rain and infiltrates the ground can move downward directly to the water table in a(n) ____ aquifer.
13. The discharge of ground water at the surface occurs at a feature called a ___.
14. ___ is the percent of a given volume of rock that is void space between the solid grains. That void space may be filled with gas or liquid or both.
15. ___ is a rock property that reflects how easily a gas or liquid is able to flow through the rock.
16. A rock layer through which water flows only very, very slowly is called a(n) ___.
17. Slightly acidic ground water flowing through limestone may lead to the development of ___.
18. In general, flow is (choose one: faster, slower) through an interconnected system of fractures than through the inter-granular pore system in a rock.

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