Practice Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment and exploring the Web resources, study guide, and tutorial, review what you have learned with these quizzes:

 
Groundwater Multiple Choice Quiz
 

Quizzes, Tarbuck and Lutgens, Chapter 5, Key Concepts 4 and 5 and Chapter Test

Web Exploration
 
Groundwater - Nature's Hidden Treasure
Environment Canada, a branch of the Canadian Government provides an overview of groundwater and a detailed examination of the problems involved in groundwater use.
 
Groundwater Atlas of the United States
USGS (United States Geological Survey) has an online atlas that describes the groundwater resources of United States' regions. Explore the water resources of California and Nevada. You will learn a lot about the physical geography of these states from this site.
 
Land Subsidence in the Southwestern United States
Find out about the problem of land subsidence in the Southwestern United States at this USGS site.
 
USGS Groundwater Information Page
This is a good source for information about groundwater in the United States.
 
Groundwater Basics
This is a well illustrated tutorial on the nature of groundwater, its source, movement, and behavior.
 

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