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HYDROGEOLOGY TEST
Directions: You have 20 minutes to answer all the questions in this test.
The exam will be split up into two parts-a rules based section and a
content based section. Every question only has one correct answer.
Dont spend too much time on any one question, and read each
statement carefully. Good Luck Science Olympians!
Section one: content
Matching: Please write the letter of the definition next to the number of the corresponding
word. Each definition is either used once or not at all.
1. Discharge
2. Aeration zone
3. Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (DNAPL)
4. Aquifer
5. Groundwater
6. Confining layer
7. Darcys Law
8. Depletion
9. Drawdown
10. Flow rate
11. Cone of depression
12. Ex-situ

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.

Describes the flow of a fluid through a porous medium. V = Ki/n

Not in the natural or original position or place, off-site
A liquid that is both denser than water and does not dissolve in water
Geologic material with little or no permeability or hydraulic conductivity
An underground geological formation able to store and yield water
The zone around a well in an unconfined aquifer that is normally saturated,
but becomes unsaturated as a well is pumped
Water found in the spaces between soil (gravel, sand, silt, and clay) particles
and cracks in rocks underground (located in the saturation zone).
An outflow of water from a stream, pipe, groundwater aquifer, or watershed
A lowering of the groundwater level caused by pumping
Zone immediately below the land surface where the pores contain both water
and air
The time required for a volume of groundwater to move between points
The physical characteristics of a rock or stratigraphic unit
A VOC that does not contain one of the halogen elements located in the
seventh column of the periodic table
Water above the surface of the land, including lakes, rivers, streams, ponds,
floodwater, and runoff
The loss of water from surface water reservoirs or groundwater aquifers at a
rate greater than that of recharge

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13. What are the three constituents of a hydraulic head?

14. What law is used to determine groundwater flow direction and velocity?
a. Darcys Law
b. Boyles Law
c. Henrys Law
d. Wiens Law
15. Which of the following aquifers supplies water to the residents of the Yellowstone National Park region
(western Idaho and southern Montana)
a. Edwards Aquifer
b. Ogallala Aquifer
c. Snake River Aquifer
d. Mahomet Aquifer
16. Which of the following aquifers is one of the largest, spanning eight states, and the most rapidly decreasing,
due to commercial overuse?
a. Edwards Aquifer
b. Ogallala Aquifer
c. Snake River Aquifer
d. Mahomet Aquifer
17. Which of the following answers is the permissible quantity of mercury in drinking water?
a. 1.0 mg/L
b. 0.1 mg/L
c. 0.01mg/L
d. 0.001mg/L
18. The ideal type of rock type for the formation of an aquifer is metamorphic. True/ False
19. Which of the following is not one of the four wetland types
a. Fens
b. Bogs
c. Ponds
d. Marshes
e. Swamps
Part two: Rules
20. You are allowed to bring all of the following material to your testing room excepta. Non-graphing calculator
b. Binder of notes
c. Pens and pencils
d. Protractors
21. Knowledge on how to manipulate a computer simulation of groundwater is not essential for this event. True/
False
22. On part three of the exam, the supervisor will provide a physical sample of the contaminant that is to be
introduced. True/False
23. On part two of the exam, students will have to complete a certain scenario regarding three wells, and submit
their results online. True/False
24. For the remediation technique table on part three of the exam, you have to identify all of the following
excepta. The possible introduction of the contaminant

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b.
c.
d.

The approximate cost of cleaning up the contaminant

The type of cleanup technique
Whether the technique is in-situ or ex-situ