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Water Quiz
Water Quiz
Water Quiz
Test Your understanding (Some online quiz questions and questions on our
last exam will come directly from this study guide.)
Try these questions after completing your work on
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/hydro/basic/HydrologicCycle/ (Lea
rning Module)
Here are links 2 online quizzes. It is fun to use the online environment for these
quizzes but the questions have also been reproduced below as part of the larger
Hydrological study quiz.
http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module01/HydrologicCycleQuiz.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zRw_LTr7M
Withdrawing water from an aquifer can affect the depth to the local water
table.
T/F
2. _____ supports streamflow during non-storm periods.
a. Base-flow
b. Surface flow
c. interflow
d. Storm-flow
3. Which of the following are reasons to consider the evaporation potential of a
forecast area? (choose all that apply)
a. To forecast precipitation
b. To estimate the water loss from the surface of a reservoir or lake
c. To model how evaporation and transpiration can reduce soil moisture
d. To identify pockets of higher humidity
4. T/F For the same soil moisture conditions, a tension lysimeter collects more
water than a
zero tension lysimeter.
a.
b.
c.
d.
34.The process in which ice turns into water vapor and cools the environment is
called.
a.
Melting b. condensation
c. evaporation d. sublimation e.
freezing f. deposition
35.The process in which ice turns into liquid water and cools the environment is
called.
a.
Melting b. condensation
c. evaporation d. sublimation e.
freezing f. deposition
36. Underground water; the water which supplies wells is
a. Flow through
b. Ground water
c. Underground lakes
d. Underground streams
a.
b. Sleet
c. Deposition
d. **Precipitation
24.T/F (F temperature usually drop with altitude)Condensation happens
because the temperature increases with altitude in the troposphere.
25.The process by which plants lose water through small openings in leaves.
a. **Transpiration
b. Evaporation
c. Sublimation
d. Drying
26.Surface run-off is:
a. The excess water after evaporation
b. The excess water from snow melt
c. **The excess water from precipitation after evaporation and
infiltration
d. Precipitation plus infiltration
27.T/F (T) The Hydrological Cycle is the same as the water cycle.
28. Water filtering down through bedrock is
a. Infiltration
b. Runoff
c. Flow
d. **Percolation
29.T/F (F) Lakes and oceans are transfers of water not stores of water
30.The process in which water vapor turns into liquid water and releases
latent heat energy into the environment is called.
a.
Melting b. ** condensation
c. evaporation d. sublimation e.
freezing f. deposition
31.The process in which water vapor turns into ice and releases latent heat
energy into the environment is called.
a.
Melting b. condensation
c. evaporation d. sublimation e.
freezing f.** deposition
32.The process in which liquid water turns into ice and releases latent heat
energy into the environment is called.
a.
Melting b. condensation
c. evaporation d. sublimation e.
**freezing f. deposition
33.The process in which liquid water turns into water vapor and cools the
environment is called.
a.
Melting b. condensation
c. ** evaporation d. sublimation e.
freezing f. deposition
34.The process in which ice turns into water vapor and cools the environment
is called.
a.
Melting b. condensation
c. evaporation d. **sublimation e.
freezing f. deposition
35.The process in which ice turns into liquid water and cools the environment
is called.
a.
**Melting b. condensation
c. evaporation d. sublimation e.
freezing f. deposition
36. Underground water; the water which supplies wells is
a. Flow through
b. **Ground water
c. Underground lakes
d. Underground streams