About the CCWF
Students who attend the Children's Clean Water Festival are from this grade.
What is fourth grade?
The scientific term for the water cycle is this.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The majority of water used in an average home is in this room.
What is the bathroom?
There are this many "main" or "primary" drinking water sources in the Portland metro region.
What is 5?
Name the three states of matter water can exist in.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
The Children's Clean Water Festival takes place at this college campus.
What is PCC Sylvania?
As air rises and cools, the water vapor in it condenses into tiny droplets and moves closer together forming these.
What are clouds?
This device screws onto the end of your faucet to help save water.
What is a faucet aerator?
True or false: most of the Earth's drinking water is found underground.
What is true?
Water that is safe to drink is called this, from the Latin potare.
What is potable water?
The Children's Clean Water Festival is supported by 19 partner organizations. Name one of them:
What is:
City of Forest Grove, City of Gresham, City of Hillsboro, City of Lake Oswego, City of Portland - Environmental Services, City of Portland Water Bureau, City of Sherwood, City of Tigard, City of Tualatin, Bureau of Land Management, Clackamas Water Environment Services, Clackamas River Water Providers, Clean Water Services, Oak Lodge Water Services, PCC Sylvania, Regional Water Providers Consortium, Rockwood Water People’s Utility District, Tualatin Valley Water District, U.S. Geological Survey
Name two types of precipitation.
What are:
Rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain, or graupel?
One of the most common sources of leaks at home is this, and it can waste hundreds to thousands of gallons of water each month.
What is a toilet?
This is the chemical makeup of water.
What is 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom or H2O?
This device is used to record the amount of water passing through a pipe.
What is a water meter?
The Children's Clean Water Festival began in this year.
What is 1994?
This is the term used to describe water soaking into the soil deep enough to refill underground aquifers.
What is groundwater recharge?
The average person in the United States uses about this many gallons of water per day.
What is 100 gallons?
Name two cities that get their drinking water from the Clackamas River.
What are:
Clackamas, Damascus, Estacada, Gladstone, Happy Valley, Jennings Lodge, Lake Oswego, Oak Grove, Oregon City, Tigard, and West Linn?
There are approximately this many miles of water pipe among members of the Regional Water Providers Consortium.
What is 7,000 miles?
The Children's Clean Water Festival has served approximately this number of students since it began.
What is 32,000?
These are the four main processes in the water cycle.
What are condensation, evaporation, precipitation, and transpiration.
This program of the EPA is both a label for water-efficient products and a resource for helping people save water.
What is WaterSense?
Less than this percent of the Earth's water is fresh and can be used for drinking.
What is 1%?
A typical cloud weighs this much.
What is 1 million pounds?