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Water and Atmosphere Quiz Study Guide
1. What is the difference between porosity and permeability?
Porosity is how much space soil or rock has between its particles or within its cracks.
Permeability is how fast it can move through the particles or cracks.
2. What is called when water enters a groundwater system?
Recharge
3. Generally speaking, what is the relationship between porosity and permeability? (What is the
porosity like when the permeability is high/low)?
The higher the permeability, the lower the porosity. There are exceptions.
4. Describe two ways water falling on Van Hoosen can reach The Atlantic Ocean (think Clinton River
for one of them).
1. Rain falls on Van Hoosen and runs off into The Clinton River. Eventually, it can make it through to
The Atlantic by watersheds
2. It can evaporate, condense, and fall on the Atlantic as rain/snow/hail
5. What is the energy that moves water into rivers and lakes and pushed water into the soil?
Gravity
6. An underground reservoir of water is called __an aquifer_.
7. What layer of the atmosphere do almost all living things live in? _Troposhere___
8. In the troposphere, what happens to the temperature and altitude increases?
It decreases
9. Why does the stratosphere warm up as altitude increases?
The Ozone layer absorbs the UV rays of The Sun. Those rays are tuned into heat raising the
temperatures of the stratosphere.
10. What layer contains the majority of The Earth’s air molecules and why?
The troposphere because gravity pulls most of the air molecules down. The least dense (hydrogen
gas) is at the top.
11. What are the two uppermost layers of the atmosphere called?
Mesosphere and Therosphere
12. What layer does weather happen?
The troposphere
13. What layer has the most air pressure?
The troposphere
14. What are the three most abundant gasses in our atmosphere and what percentages of the
atmosphere do they take up?
Nitrogen (N2) gas – 78%
Oxygen (O2) gas- 21%
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) gas – 0.03%