True or False: Leaky landfills can contaminate our drinking water
What is True
100
Contamination means...
What is polluted and dirty
100
Potable or Not: The water from CCHS's drinking fountains.
What is Potable
200
Bedrock under the ground that holds water
What is an aquifer
200
True or False: You can drill anywhere and get good quality groundwater.
What is False
200
Name two sources of contaminated water
What are (possible answers include): leaky landfills, factories dumping chemicals, household septic systems, leaky underground storage containers
300
An area of bedrock under the ground that is filled up (saturated)
What is the saturation zone
300
True or False: The water table will rise if more water is soaked up into the saturation zone
What is True.
300
Name 2 things that we can use potable groundwater for.
What is (possible answers): drinking, washing clothes, showering, gardening, watering crops, cooking
400
Contamination means...
What is dirty and polluted
400
True or False: The permeability of an aquifer defines its ability to yield water.
What is True.
400
Are toxins good or bad?
What is BAD!!
400
Potable or Not: The water from a river that collects trash and debris from a nearby town.
What is Not Potable
500
The top of the saturation zone is known as the ___________________. It rises higher and higher as more rain soaks into the ground.
What is the water table
500
True or False: Groundwater can come from rain and melting snow.
What is True.
500
Explain how the drinking water for a home can get contaminated?
What is contaminated drinking water stored in the aquifer can get pumped up into a well and pushed through the pipes leading to the homes faucets and sinks.