1. Chapter 10: Ground water Review Designed by: Meghan E. Dillner

2. Review LESSON 10.1 VOCABULARY 100200300400500 LESSON 10.2 VOCABULARY 100200300400500 LESSON 10.3 VOCABULARY 100200300400500 MIXED VOCABULARY 100200300400500

3. BONUS QUESTION! If answered correctly, this question is worth… 1,000 EXTRA POINTS!

4. How much of the hydrosphere is contained in the oceans?

5. 97% back to board

6. Permeable under ground layer through which groundwater flows relatively easily.

7. AQUIFER Back To Board

8. Process by which precipitation that has fallen on land surfaces enters the ground and becomes groundwater.

9. INFILTRATION Back To Board

10. Ability of a material to let water pass through, which is high in material with large, well-connected pores and low in material with few pores or small pores.

11. PERMEABILITY Back To Board

12. Percentage of open spaces between grains in a rock; is heightened in well sorted sediments

13. POROSITY Back To Board

14. Upper boundary of the zone of saturation that rises during wet seasons and drops during dry periods

15. WATER TABLE Back To Board

16. Underground opening connected to Earth’s surface, usually formed when groundwater dissolves limestone

17. CAVE Back To Board

18. Irregular topography with sinkholes, sinks, and sinking streams caused by groundwater dissolution of limestone

19. KARST TOPOGRAPHY Back To Board

20. Depression in Earth’s surface formed when a cave collapses or bedrock is dissolved by acidic rain

21. SINKHOLE Back To Board

22. Cone-shaped or cylindrical dripstone deposit of calcium carbonate that hangs like an icicle from a cave’s ceiling

23. STALACITE Back To Board

24. Mound-shaped dripstone deposit of calcium carbonate that forms on a cave’s floor beneath a stalacite Back To Board

25. STALAGMITE Back To Board

26. Fountain of water that spurts above the land surface when a well taps a deep, confined aquifer containing water under pressure

27. ARTESIAN WELL Back To Board

28. Difference between the water level in a pumped well and the original water-table level

29. DRAWDOWN Back To Board

30. Explosive hot spring that erupts regularly

31. GEYESER Back To Board

32. Thermal spring with temperatures higher than that of the human body

33. HOT SPRING Back To Board

34. Process by which water from precipitation and runoff is added to the zone of saturation

35. RECHARGE Back To Board

36. Depth below Earth’s surface where all the pores of a material are completely filled with groundwater

37. ZONE OF SATURATION Back To Board

38. A type of limestone found in dripstone formations

39. TRAVERTINE Back To Board

40. Natural discharge of groundwater at Earth’s surface where an aquifer and an aquiclude come in contact

41. SPRING Back To Board

42. Deep hole drilled or dug into the ground to reach a reservoir of groundwater

43. WELL Back To Board

44. The Greek word for water

45. hydros Back To Board