4. leads to saline intrusions a) how environments are shifted in location through time d) continental shelf, which parts of the seafloor have the youngest oceanic crust? a) a weak current d) all of the above d)islands in the southwestern Pacific ocean in a material that holds groundwater, porosity, controls the amount of water that can be stored, Ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it, material that has low porosity and permeability so that it does not transmit water easily is called, main way surface water becomes ground water, water flows thru the unsaturated zone and into the saturated zone, groundwater velocity is most strongly influenced by, water table has a similar shape to topography, the well above the contaminate on the hill, a large body of permeable, saturated material thru which groundwater can flow well enough to yield sufficient water to wells, bottom of the lens of fresh water will rise, causing the well to draw in salt water, plume of contamination spreads out (becomes wider) away from the source of contamination, because of diffusion of the contamination and mixing of contaminated and uncontaminated water, 1. cone of depression An aquifer is defined as a body of rock or unconsolidated sediment that has sufficient permeability to allow water to flow through it. The effective porosity may equal, or be less than, the total porosity (n) of the sample (Table 1). d) whether water runs off the land or sinks into the ground e) open ocean away from land, if a rock is poorly sorted, this means the rock contains: b) mountain belt or island arc b)tar sands B. d) all of the above, what mineral resource do we use the most of? d) swimming pools, the Coriolis effect in the atmosphere is due to: what is the likely porosity and permeability of pumice? b) traveltine Water can be held tighter in small pores than in large ones, so fine soils can hold more water than coarse soils. Groundwater typically flows through limestones by way of cracks. b) the dissolved and suspended load of a river Gravity and pressure move water downward and sideways underground through spaces between rocks. e) all the above, which of the following is true about how shorelines are affected from the water side? b) rolling sand grains along the surface a) clockwise in the northern hemisphere d) joints that form when rock pressures are released a) because the temp of the oceans decreases from cold glacial streams b) the relationship between regional elevations and thickness of crust. Field capacity is the soil water content after the soil has been saturated and allowed to drain freely for about 24 to 48 hours. b) house fires groundwater that is accessible as a water resource transmits water easily - material is porous and permeable Aquitard A material of low porosity and permeability that greatly slows the movement of ground water Aquiclude A body of rock that will not transmit water at all little or no porosity or permeability water table c) counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere All rights reserved. b) salt deposits that formed early in Earth's history become dissolved by modern oceans e) none of the above, b) when strengthening of an ocean current results in warmer sea temp in the eastern pacific, Which of the following is not a reason why rain forests are disappearing? c) tectonic subsidence during earthquakes can cause flooding and change local climates c) Divergent a) deforming objects into new shapes d) contamination spreads out as it moves, forming a widening plume, d) contamination spreads out as it moves, forming a widening plume, most of the groundwater pumped in the US is used for: e) a and b only, The Earth's magnetic field is generated by: For example, a fine soil has smaller but more numerous pores than a coarse soil. a) controls the amount of water that can be sorted d) are composed of lava flows, pyroclastic material, and mudflows If one has two wells close together on tight rock, the areas of influence between the wells can overlap, reducing yields in both wells. However, in some cases, physical sampling methods may increase or decrease the sample porosity. b) the magnetic properties of hydrogen b) a pyroclastic flow c) a lake can gain water if it is lower then the water table in areas adjacent to the lake c) abundant magma formed within a typical mid ocean ridge Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 1 about the ground that we walk on? a) waterfalls c) commercial lodging for typical hardwoods, such as mahogany c) ice and snow that are permanently in motion The movement of seawater into freshwater aquifers, which can lead to contamination of drinking water sources and other consequences. After dissolution, porosity was greater than before dissolution, increasing by 0.140%, 0.038%, 0.042%, and 0.126%, respectively . a) ductile behavior a) abrasion is concentrated on the upstream side of obstructions c) volcanic glass Why is it important to know about porosity and permeability? d) they can be too small to see but can build diagnostic features in the rocks c) deposition and burial 4. land subsidence a) salty water moving through the deep parts of the crust d) all of the above How does a cross bed form? The cement in consolidated sedimentary rocks occupies what would otherwise be spaces between the grains, so a cemented sandstone, for example, will be less porous than a loose sand with grains of similar size. a) dissolution b) the area offshore of northern Australia a) an abrupt change is the composition of the sediment Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock. a. LiF\mathrm{LiF}LiF will have a higher vapor pressure at 25C25^{\circ} \mathrm{C}25C than H2S\mathrm{H}_2 \mathrm{~S}H2S. 4. bringing contamination into previously uncontained wells, well ( from below the water table) b) bigger and rounder as they are transported b) iron ore a) mostly sand 7. pore collapse. b) clockwise in the southern hemisphere c) a rise in sea level during the day because of an increase in storms The Loeb-Sourirajan RO membrane was developed for seawater desalination using the Preferential Sorption-Capillary Flow (PS-CF) model, and apertures are essential in order to pass . e) all of the above, Which of the following resources do geologic ages help us explore? e) a and b only, the term half life represents the time it takes: d) ice caps and glaciers c) tar pits b) all the rocks were depoisted with the youngest on the bottom So how fast does water flow underground? e) radioactive decay, which of the following is not a common trigger for slope failure? a) water contracting as it freezes -the permeability of the aquifer b) 5 mill a) limestone Calculate the following. b.For consolidated shale and sandstone sediments, the larger the grain size, the higher the porosity. c) roots that pry apart fractures as the root grows in size a) two plates are colliding More specifically porosity of a rock is a measure of its ability to hold a . Which material has . In a material that holds groundwater, porosity: A. controls the amount of water that can be stored B. determines the composition of the cement between grains and clasts C. does not depend on the size and shape of grains and clasts D. is constant from one type of material to another. d) gray granite Water usually helps to dissolve limestone by forming a weak, carbonic acid. Porosity can be referred to or considered as the ability of the water to penetrate through the pores contained inside a rock, and the . c) a change in color d) movement of water is restricted to rainfall and rivers c) medium grained granite b) lithosphere After sufficient time is allowed for the pores to become saturated (the water volume in the container stops changing), the volume in the beaker is recorded as 108 ml. pressure causes water to rise on its own, an imaginary surface that defines the level to which water in a confined aquifer would rise were it completely pierced with wells, pressure surface is below ground level It prevents most groundwater from circulating. excess pumping, cone of depression a) color c) Jurrasic Just create an account and sign in. c) beach along and ocean or lake If youre new to university-level study, read our guide on Where to take your learning next, or find out more about the types of qualifications we offer including entry level The stream in this scenario is the location with the lowest hydraulic potential, so the groundwater that flows to the lower parts of the aquifer has to flow upward to reach this location. In some permeable materials groundwater may move several metres in a day; in other places, it moves only . d) a rising plume of hot mantle material, Which of the following features is associated with a subduction zone? Groundwater is found in two zones. a) the size of the clast increase c) volcanoes a) trees are cleared for small farms so that people can live off the land holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or . The amount of water a material can hold is directly related to the porosity since water will try and fill the empty spaces in a material. If the rocks have low porosity and permeability, the radius of influence will be larger. b) a glacier can move by internal shear and flow b) abyssal plain d) Transform e) all of the above are evidence left behind by glaciers, c) changes in the isotopic composition of marine shells, which of the following does not physically loosen rocks on the surface? which of the following is a principle to interpret relative ages? c) mid-ocean ridge a) Asia rifted apart form Europe d) silicates d) for the sun to decay its size by 50 percent, c) for half of the parent atoms to decay into daughter atoms, which of the following is not a way in which fossils can be preserved? 5. change flow of water c) hardness b) volcanic eruption b) steep slopes e) all of the above are involved, what is the ultimate source of food for animals living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents? d. HCl\mathrm{HCl}HCl is more soluble in water than in CCl4\mathrm{CCl}_4CCl4. B. . a) a great thickness of oceanic sediment trapped within the central rift The permittivity measures the obstruction produces by the material in the formation of the electric field, whereas the permeability is the ability of the material to allow magnetic lines to conduct through it. e) a and b only, which of the following rocks cannot be metamorphosed? e) all of the above are common in deserts, e) all of the above are common in deserts, which of the following is a way that plate tectonics can affect the climate? Porosity determines the amount of water that a rock or sediment can contain. b) a change in grain size b) Gaines d) a fault on land has a large displacement Measurement of Coefficient of Permeability of Soil 6. defined at body of water at that location b) bottled spring water c) the ocean a) elevation of the land surface near the shore a) quartzite c) hot water is trapped below the seafloor is released b) leaves and other plant debris Dead-end pores are only likely to impact the magnitude of the effective porosity when their volume makes up a significant portion of the sample. The total volume of open space in which the groundwater can reside is porosity. b) the atmosphere rotating faster at the equator than at the poles b) playa Unconsolidated sediments with rounded grains of uniform size (i.e. Sign up for our regular newsletter to get updates about our new free courses, interactives, videos and topical content on OpenLearn. c) the surface area increase as the rock is fractured In the example above, 1 m 3 of soil (e.g. c) Co2 gas from roots This determines how easy it is for water to flow from one pore to the next. The fractional volume of pores that are interconnected is referred to as effective porosity. 2. subsidence and compaction of the aquifer c) they can be preserved in ancient tree sap c) intermolecular bond e) a and b only. The volume of water that fills the void spaces is assumed to represent the volume available to flowing groundwater, VI. Q/A. c) width of the beach c) oceanic trenches A. b) the # of electrons c) a line that connects all the high points on a topographic map Aquifer Parameters 4. Types of Wells 7. d) dunes formed by wind, What typically happens to the size, shape, and sorting of clasts as they are transported from steep mountains toward more gentle settings? d) compression that buckles the crust forming the ridge c) shaking during an earthquake For example, water flowing through a porous sandstone flows more slowly than water flowing through a granite or limestone when the porosity is provided by just one or two narrow fissures. e) we use all of these techniques, what is associated with reversed magnetic polarity? d) all the above, deformation and metamorphism is part of? c) drinking water Effective porosity can also be determined by submerging a fully dried sample in a beaker filled with a measured quantity of water and applying suction to draw air out of the sample. Lassen, A hot spot is interpreted to have formed from: combinations that make for the best groundwater reservoir? a) all rocks were originally deposited horizontally closed-cell foam).. a. number of atoms in 25.7gAl25.7 \mathrm{~g} \mathrm{Al}25.7gAl c) rain forests c) a change in the supply of sediment Porosity depends on both soil texture and structure. c) past events, such as landslides and earthquakes Lowers water table/ Take a look at all Open University courses. c) the # of electrons in the outer shell c) movement of iron and electrical currents within Earth's outer core b) magnetism b) ice and snow that exist throughout the entire year b) quaternary When such zones are penetrated by wells, the water rises above the point at which it was first found because a confined aquifer is under pressure exceeding that of atmospheric pressure. d) the rock cooled slowly Groundwater . b) they can be buried and decay, leaving a cavity in the rock Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available. unsaturated zone- (above the water table) pore spaces filled with air, It is the boundary between the saturated zone and unsaturated zone; Below the water table, water fills pore spaces and can flow; Infiltrating water generally passes through the water table to become groundwater. In most cases, total porosity values reported for uncemented granular material and rocks with wellconnected pores and fractures can be used to represent effective porosity. (a)-(d) show vertical sections 1 cm across, (e) and (f) are 1 m across. Test Prep. e) all of the above are common triggers for slope failure, e) all of the above are common triggers for slope failure, which of the following slope failures is least likely to cause casualties? c) thrust Some rocks have pores that are not part of active groundwater flow paths (e.g., some voids in vesicular basalt); pores that are dead ends (similar to a cul-de-sac on a street map); and pores with extremely small connections such that even water molecules do not easily pass, as is the case for some pores in clays. For a rock to be permeable and for water to move through it, the pore spaces between the grains in the rock must be connected. c) cementation a) burial Which of the following materials has low porosity and low permeability. c) piling of sediment down the front of a dune or ripple b) a transform fault to a spreading center 4. buried gasoline or chemicals. a) spring water a) fractured granite Groundwater moves significantly slower than surface water. b) 100 meters a) calm waters in a lagoon What is a possible way to increase permeability? b) the rock cooled quickly The studied outcrop has a total thickness of about 60 m which was categorized into four microfacies i.e., bioclastic mudstone, bioclastic mud-wackestone, bioclastic . Table 2 provides an example of the ranges of values of total porosity and effective porosity for a variety of materials. e) a wide range in the size of clasts, which of the following places would not be a good place to visit a reef? b) near magma but at deep levels Permeability: a measure of the ability of a material (such as rocks) to transmit fluids Porosity and permeability are related properties of any rock or loose sediment. c) seamounts 2. lowers water table For each numbered arrow in Figure 2, here is my geology question These figures show the eight planets of our Solar System. 3. The point at which matric forces hold water too tightly for plant extraction (-1.5 MPa) is termed the permanent wilting point. 36. a) a lake that is above the water table may lose water to groundwater e) a and b only, Composite volcanoes are so called because they: Ideally, sample structure, the degree of compaction, particle packing, and density would be representative of field conditions, which is referred to as an undisturbed sample. Weve pioneered distance learning for over 50 years, bringing university to you wherever you are so you can fit study around your life. We express it is a mathematical ratio: volume of voids divided by total volume (void/total). must drill deeper, Letter - Part 3 Type Styles and typeface desi, Chapt 2 Letters - part 2 Classification of Le. . a) a pan is placed directly on a burner b) daily heating and cooling of the seas, which causes seawater to contract and expand a) internal processes within the moon e) none of the above, The deepest parts of the seafloor are creates limitation on future water supply, reduce use of water by all sectors and encourage recycling of water, the unsaturated zone above the water table, the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area c) in the southern hemisphere If there was no pore space in the 10 cm3 sample the final volume of water would be 110 ml. So, for a given specific discharge, a low porosity gives a much higher speed of flow; this is because the same amount of flow has to go through a much smaller porous area. b) oil and gas b. number of atoms in 5.66gI25.66 \mathrm{~g} \mathrm{I}_25.66gI2 The porosity is also lower if the sediment is poorly sorted, because small grains can occupy the spaces between larger grains (Figure 14b). b) cooling and contraction e) none of these, Which of the following would not be considered a volcanic hazard? d) the surface area decrease as the rock is fractured . d) composite volcano, which of the following processes is not considered to be chemical weathering? c) a younger rock can include pieces of an older rock. d) metamorphism An estimated 77 billion gallons per day of fresh groundwater was pumped in the United States in 1995, which is about 8 percent of the estimated 1 trillion gallons per day of natural recharge to the Nation's groundwater resources. a) a line that connects the peaks and valleys of an area d) it is converted into feldspar and weathers into clay, c) it ends up as sand in rivers, dunes, and beaches, which of the following is not a source of material for soil? All Rights Reserved. a) transport of the clast over long distance d) transform faulting uplifts the rocks Drag the art in the correct order, arranged from the youngest (most recent) at the top (number 1)to the, Which of the following is NOT one of the ways in which hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", of oil and gas deposits is affecting water quality? permanent - can stop it but not undo it, 1. pesticides and herbicides d) all of the above "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%. 6. induces land subsidence, 1. creates a slope c) limestone The area or zone where groundwater emerges from the aquifer. d) gravity 1. stop input and let nature remove it - easy but slow Hydrogeologists classify these aquifers based on two main qualities, the porosity or free space between particles in the aquifer, and permeability. What Is Porosity And How Is It Related To Permeability? Hydrogeologic Properties of Earth Materials and Principles of Groundwater Flow Copyright 2020 by The Authors. b) the decay of creatures that float on the ocean surface and settle to the bottom In a material that holds groundwater porosity A controls the amount of water. a) there was a lot of gas in the magma pore spaces in the unsaturated zone contain air with no water, there is an unsaturated zone below some rivers. We measure porosity by the percentage of empty space that exists within a particular porous media. c) the position of the hydrogen atoms on one side of the molecule Even so, the packing arrangement will differ, and thus laboratory measurements using recompacted samples provide only approximations of the field effective porosity values. c) dolostone a) the hardness of bedrock along the coast b) precipitation refers to minerals coating sand grains with natural cement d) all of the above e) all of the above affect potential hazards of shorelines, e) all of the above affect potential hazards of shorelines, which of the following most likely indicates that the sea level has fallen relative to the land? a) weathered rock and sediment characteristics found in all good aquifers. b) the lava forms a ropy texture a) divergent Permeability takes this pore space and connects the voids together so that water can pass through. The ability of the ground water to pass through the pore spaces in the rock is described as the rock's permeability. b) reverse lowers the water table, 1. cone of depression d) oversteepening of cliffs or hillslopes during road construction The international standard letter/number mapping for telephones is: Write a function that returns a number, given an uppercase letter, as follows: Write a test program that prompts the user to enter a phone number as a string. b) contamination moves opposite to the direction of groundwater flow More specifically, porosity of a rock is a measure of its ability to hold a fluid. Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) wells are part of a system to take surplus fresh surface water, treat it as required for permit compliance, and then store it in the Floridan Aquifer System (FAS) for subsequent recovery during dry periods. View document [Tip: hold and click a link to open it in a new tab. The unsaturated zone, immediately below 5. collapses pore space and e) all of the above are ways fossils can be preserved, e) all of the above are ways fossils can be preserved, To what does the term evolution refer? b) magnetism c) river water a) the depth to which wave action extends Porosity and Permeability Lab Porosity and Permeability Lab The terms porosity and permeability are related. d) meteorites, According to the rock cycle, sediment that is being transported by a river could become a metamorphic rock after: b) melting and solidification e) Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessese, what are some ways that geology controls ecology? e) a and b only, which of the following is not a type of carbonate rock? It is stored in and moves slowly through geologic formations of soil, sand and rocks called aquifers. d) Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio ground level above the potentiometric surface Igneous and metamorphic rocks generally have very low porosity, because of their interlocking crystals. Water in the saturated groundwater system moves slowly and may eventually discharge into streams, lakes, and oceans. This process is continued until the sample is fully saturated (as determined by a film of water appearing on the top of the sample). a) forces are pushing inward from all directions by the same amount a) metallic bond d) shale The saturated zone has a higher porosity than the unsaturated zone. e) the ash and pumice were hot and became compared, Which of the following is the best example of heat transfer by conduction? a) ordovician a) s strong current Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, 2(1), 39-43. not as high (water more gentle -lower relief), relationship between the height of the stream and the height of the water table, the stream is the surface expression of the water table, what causes cone of depression to be larger, can cause a well to go dry c) for half of the parent atoms to decay into daughter atoms c) dunes formed by wind b) determines the compostion of the cement between grains and clasts c) a piece of California started moving northward up the west coast b) the water table intersect, or is higher than, the surface in many lakes e) lithosphere is thinner and hotter, rocks moving from a source area become: b) coarse granite The total volume of sample is determined by the initial increase volume read from the beaker markings immediately upon placing the sample in the water, Once the sample is fully saturated, the reduction in the volume of water is used to infer the volume of void space. We used time-resolved (4-D) microtomographic data to capture the dynamic evolution of the porosity in layered NaCl-NaCl/biotite samples over 1619 and 1932 h of compaction. a.Why is the sample in Figure 14a a well-sorted sediment, and why are Figures 14b and c poorly sorted sediments? Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. These asymmetric membranes showed that high flux is largely due to their exceptional thinness and porosity (Feria-Daz et al., 2021; Loeb and Sourirajan, 1962). a) effervescence d) the # of protons and neutrons, Orange County receives most of its drinking water from? d) mars, What causes a water molecule to be polar? e) reaction with acids from decaying plants, which of the following ism\ not a way to form layers in a sedimentary rock? Materials 2023, 16, 1828. https: . cause groundwater to flow in curved upward path to streams and lakes, a well that brings pressurized water to the surface without pumping a) alluvial fan a) rock avalanche b) compaction d) Mt. Aflow throughpermeabilityporosity . It originates as rainfall or snow, and then moves through the soil into the groundwater system, where it eventually makes its way back to surface streams, lakes, or oceans. c) depends Study: Third of Big Groundwater Basins in Distress e) all of the above are ways to form layers, e) all of the above are ways to form layers, Which of the following does not help define layers in some sedimentary rocks? a) mineral deposits relate to granites Confining beds vary in permeability and . Porosity is the amount of free space within a material. b) rates of seafloor spreading compared to the width of the Atlantic ocean c) a burner gives heat through the air without touching the object At the scale of laboratory investigations, careful attention to the conditions of the porous sample is required. a) shale what combination of porosity and permeability is best for an aquifer? d) granite Heavy metal contamination of ground water: The Surulere case study. Saint Helens c) were first discovered on the island of Compostia in Italy Groundwater is used for drinking water by more than 50 percent of the people in the United States, including almost everyone who lives in rural areas. 1. the number of conduits or pathways between pore spaces, layer that separates a water resource (aquifer) in the earth so that the water can't get through it, groundwater that is accessible as a water resource, A material of low porosity and permeability that greatly slows the movement of ground water, A body of rock that will not transmit water at all, The boundary (top) of the saturated zone of groundwater and the unsaturated zone, top of the groundwater system a) the early oceans were salty because comets are dirty snowballs e) none of the above, a) the depth to which wave action extends, which of the following can influence weather a shoreline gains or loses sand with time? d) a change in climate of the region a) Hawaii Round particles will pack more tightly than particles with sharp edges. c) some angular and some rounded clasts 3. a change in direction of groundwater flow The volume of water needed to saturate the sample is then divided by the sample volume to determine the effective porosity (Equation 6). What is the nature of the water table? (Source: Environment Canada) In a material that holds groundwater, porosity. a) stills d) prettiness, a mineral property that can be observed without using a test is: A well drilled into an aquifer under pressure, requiring no pumping to get water flow Access modules, Certificates, and Short Courses. What kind of boundary is most likely to have volcanoes and earthquakes associated with it Flow of water from the land surface into the groundwater reservoir. e) all of the above, which of the following environments would likely have large clasts? c) the rock cycle b) large cross beds in a well stored sandstone usually indicate deposition by wind d) prevailing wind direction The volume of void space is 2 ml (2 cm3). 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