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Hydrology Test
Test Description: Review the topics related to water on earth
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What process created the Grand Canyon?
A
river (water) erosion
B
wind erosion
C
snow erosion
D
ice erosion
2) What causes an underground water table to change?
A
Drought conditions
B
Melting snow from mountain ranges
C
All of the choices are correct.
D
Excessive demands on the aquifer because more and more people have populated an area.
3) John wants to explain the water cycle to his mother because he learned it in school today. What should John say to her?
A
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run-off, accumulation
B
condensation, evaporation, run-off, collection
C
run off, evaporation, melting, precipitaion
D
evaporation, precipitation, run-off
4) Which source of energy below is the most important in driving the water cycle?
A
Wind helps change surface water into water vapor during the process of evaporation.
B
Sunlight heats up surface water creating the process of evaporation.
C
Geothermal energy is important so forms of precipitation like rain occur.
D
Gravity is necessary to pull water downhill when it rains
5) Where does most water vapor in the atmosphere come from?
A
Evaporation from glaciers and polar ice caps
B
Evaporation from the ocean
C
Evaporation from the soil
D
Transpiration from plants
6) Which contains the greatest amount of freshwater?
A
Oceans and seas
B
Lakes and rivers
C
Groundwater
D
Glaciers and Polar ice caps
7) Approximately what percentage of Earth’s water is saltwater?
A
97 percent
B
71 percent
C
3 percent
D
30 percent
8) A “steeply inclined” section of the Continental margin that is located between the Continental Shelf and the Continental Rise is called what?
A
Continental Slope
B
Abyssal Plain
C
Mid Ocean Ridge
D
Rift Valley
9) Mountain chains that form in the ocean, because of tectonic plates pulling apart, are called____________________.
A
Ocean trenches
B
Seamounts
C
Rift valleys
D
Mid ocean ridges
10) How do the factors of temperature and pressure change as someone goes deeper into the ocean?
A
Temperature decreases, but pressure increases.
B
Temperature increases, but pressure decreases
C
Temperature and pressure both decrease
D
Temperature and pressure both increase
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