Surface Water
What is the term for water that collects on the surface of the ground?
Answer: What is surface water?
What is water stored beneath the Earth’s surface called?
Answer: What is groundwater?
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Answer: What is approximately 70%?
What is one way humans harm surface water?
What is pollution?
How do human activities most likely affect groundwater?
What is pollutants percolate through the soil and enter the water table?
Name one example of a surface water source.
Answer: What is a river, lake, or stream?
The underground boundary between unsaturated soil and groundwater is called?
Answer: What is the water table?
An increased amount of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus into the ocean can cause...
Answer: overgrowth of marine plants, such as phytoplankton
Name one activity that causes groundwater contamination.
What is the use of fertilizers or pesticides?
How can community leaders protect lakes from pollution?
What is prohibited trash dumping in flow-through wetlands and along shorelines?
Surface water that does not absorb into the ground, but flows over Earth’s surface toward larger bodies of water.
Answer: Runoff?
What is the name of the underground layers of rock or sediment that hold water?
Answer: What are aquifers?
An area in a body of water where oxygen levels are so low that aquatic life cannot survive.
Answer: Dead Zone
Large floating screens to capture the plastic floating on the ocean’s surface and bring it back to land to recycle is called ...
Garbage Patch Cleanup
How does planting crops that need less fertilizer improve water quality?
What is it reduces the runoff of pollutants into nearby streams and lakes?
Surface water flows into larger bodies of water through what natural system?
Answer: What is a watershed?
How does groundwater recharge?
Answer: What is through precipitation and infiltration?
Too much plant growth ➜ plants die ➜ oxygen disappears ➜ animals suffocate ➜_________________
Answer: ecosystem damage.
What is one way humans negatively impact marine life?
What is overfishing, plastic pollution, or habitat destruction?
As water percolates deeper into the soil and settles, it becomes...
Groundwater.
The construction of new structures, many of which are impervious to water, lessens or can even eliminate...
Answer: groundwater recharge in an area
Name one way human activity negatively impacts groundwater.
Answer: What is over-pumping, pollution, or contamination from chemicals?
Can reduce access to oxygen and light for marine life
Microplastics
What is one positive way humans can protect water systems?
What is through reducing pollution, or restoring habitats?
Which human activity increases the formation of dead zones?
What is excessive use of fertilizers leading to runoff into the ocean?