Water Resources Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following in a non-renewable resource?

Correct Answer: B) Natural Gas.

2. Where does water vapor exist?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

3. Which of the following is a famous bird sanctuary?

Correct Answer: D) Bharatpur Sanctuary.

4. Underground caverns and porous layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock through which groundwater flows

Correct Answer: A) Aquifer.

5. Due to what feature is ocean water unfit for human consumption?

Correct Answer: C) Salinity.

6. What can make groundwater unsafe to drink?

Correct Answer: A) Leaky landfills.

7. Which of the following is not an endangered species?

Correct Answer: C) Coyotes.

8. This process of collecting and storing rainwater is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Rainwater Harvesting.

9. What type of Animal Eats meat?

Correct Answer: B) Carnivore.

10. Compared with people in developing countries, people in industrialized countries are more likely to eat…

Correct Answer: A) Beef.

11. Pollution that comes from many places over a large area

Correct Answer: A) Nonpoint-source pollution.

12. If groundwater is drawn from the ground faster than it can be restored then .....

Correct Answer: A) The water table will be lowered.

13. All of the following would result in an area that would result in an area thast was recently clear-cut EXCEPT;

Correct Answer: C) An increase in biodiversity, because cleared land is more inviting to a variety of new species.

14. The All-American Canal, which brings water from the Colorado River to farm fields in California, is an example of

Correct Answer: B) A water diversion.

15. Trees in ..... shed their leaves in a particular season in order to conserve loss of moisture through transpiration.

Correct Answer: C) Deciduous Forest.

16. Ocean dumping was once consider .....

Correct Answer: D) Both inexpensive and convenient.

17. How does water get into the ground?

Correct Answer: B) Infiltration.

18. You must build a model of an aquifer for a science project. What material would be the best to use for the layer that will hold water?

Correct Answer: C) A permeable material, such as gravel.

19. A hole dug by the people to bring underground water to the surface for daily household activities.

Correct Answer: D) Well.

20. What is the most common use of water in the United States?

Correct Answer: C) Power plants.