8.E.1.1 Review

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5 questions

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Focus on Water distribution in the Hydrosphere

Which best explains why a freshwater well near the ocean would have saltwater in it?

The well is too shallow and is tapped into the shallow ocean currents.

The well is too deep and is hitting an underground saltwater aquifer.

The water in the aquifer is being used faster than it is naturally replenished and the ocean water is encroaching upon it.

If water is recycled in the atmosphere, which best describes why water availability on Earth is decreasing?

An increase in droughts is slowly reducing freshwater reservoirs.

Due to an increase in Earth’s temperature, evaporation rates continue to increase reducing liquid water on the surface.

Earth’s freshwater continues to become more polluted, reducing the supply of freshwater safe for humans to consume.

Ocean water can be distilled to remove the salt and other dissolved substances, producing pure water. Which best describes the feasibility of distilling ocean water as a means of supplying freshwater to people in areas where the supply of freshwater is lacking?

Distilling ocean water would not produce enough freshwater to supply all areas where freshwater is lacking.

Distilling ocean water is a simple process, but current technology does not exist to produce such a large supply of freshwater.

Distilling ocean water is too expensive of a process to produce enough freshwater supply to all areas where freshwater is lacking.

Distilling ocean water involves the use of hazardous chemicals, and the water would be contaminated after the process was complete.

Which best describes the process of evapotranspiration in the water cycle?

Water from the ocean enters the atmosphere as water vapor.

Water on the surface of Earth enters the groundwater supply

Water vapor in the atmosphere returns to the surface of Earth as liquid water

Water on the surface of Earth and water lost by plants enters the atmosphere as water vapor

Why is water from an aquifer more likely to be cleaner than water from other sources?

because it forms where fresh and salt water meet

because it receives water directly from precipitation

because it rises to the surface near the ocean

because pollutants are filtered by rock and soil deep within Earth

Which best explains why a freshwater well near the ocean would have saltwater in it?

The well is too shallow and is tapped into the shallow ocean currents.

The well is too deep and is hitting an underground saltwater aquifer.

The water in the aquifer is being used faster than it is naturally replenished and the ocean water is encroaching upon it.

If water is recycled in the atmosphere, which best describes why water availability on Earth is decreasing?

An increase in droughts is slowly reducing freshwater reservoirs.

Due to an increase in Earth’s temperature, evaporation rates continue to increase reducing liquid water on the surface.

Earth’s freshwater continues to become more polluted, reducing the supply of freshwater safe for humans to consume.

Ocean water can be distilled to remove the salt and other dissolved substances, producing pure water. Which best describes the feasibility of distilling ocean water as a means of supplying freshwater to people in areas where the supply of freshwater is lacking?

Distilling ocean water would not produce enough freshwater to supply all areas where freshwater is lacking.

Distilling ocean water is a simple process, but current technology does not exist to produce such a large supply of freshwater.

Distilling ocean water is too expensive of a process to produce enough freshwater supply to all areas where freshwater is lacking.

Distilling ocean water involves the use of hazardous chemicals, and the water would be contaminated after the process was complete.

Which best describes the process of evapotranspiration in the water cycle?

Water from the ocean enters the atmosphere as water vapor.

Water on the surface of Earth enters the groundwater supply

Water vapor in the atmosphere returns to the surface of Earth as liquid water

Water on the surface of Earth and water lost by plants enters the atmosphere as water vapor

Why is water from an aquifer more likely to be cleaner than water from other sources?

because it forms where fresh and salt water meet

because it receives water directly from precipitation

because it rises to the surface near the ocean

because pollutants are filtered by rock and soil deep within Earth