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100

The sources for drinking water in many villages in medieval times.

What are wells?

100
The chemical symbol for water.
What is H2O?
100

Name the five oceans of the world.

What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, Indian and Arctic?

100
Historically, this disease was caused by water-born pathogens. a. black plague b. tuberculosis c. typhoid fever
What is c. typhoid fever?
100

True or False Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius.

True.

200
Which of the following uses the most water in the US: a. industry b. agriculture c. golf courses d. cooling for power plants
What is d. cooling for power plants?
200
The temperature at which water boils.
What is 215 Fahrenheit or 100 Celsius?
200

This is the largest lake in Australia.

What is Lake Eyre?

200
This chemical is added in small amounts to most of the drinking water in the US in order to kill pathogenic organisms.
What is chlorine?
200
Water is made up of these two elements.
What is Hydrogen and Oxygen?
300
Where does most of the fresh water used in the US come from: a. surface water b. groundwater
What is a. surface water? https://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-usage-freshwater.html
300
The scientific term for rain, snow, sleet and hail.
What is Precipitation?
300
This percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water.
What is 71%? (will accept anything between 68 and 74%)
300
This is the name for the process of water ridding itself of organic pollutants after human sewage is released into rivers.
What is self-purification?
300
Water occurs in these three forms.
What is Solid, Liquid and Gas?
400

The name of the local water reservoir, starting with the letter P, and adjacent to a racetrack, a water park and a quarry on different sides.

What is Prospect Reservoir?

400
This physical property of water can be used to explain why solid water (ice) floats on top of liquid water.
What is density?
400
A piece of glacier that has broken off into a body of water.
What is an Iceberg?
400
Sweating, crying and going to the bathroom are all ways your body does this.
What are ways your body eliminates water?
400
Pure-ish water generally has a neutral pH, meaning that it measures around this number.
What is 7?
500

There are this many major dams in NSW.

What is 41?

500
Water has two important uses in the generation of electricity. Name them both.
What are moving turbines and coolant?
500
The direction that all known rivers flow in.
What is towards the center of the Earth?
500
The build up of this toxic metal at the upper levels of the food chain is a serious concern for those fishing in San Francisco Bay.
What is mercury?
500
Water molecules are this, meaning that one end of the molecule is slightly positive in charge and the other end is slightly negative.
What is polar?
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