Water Cycle
Water, Water, Everywhere
Hydrology
Our Fragile Planet
Water Geography
100
The source of energy for the hydrologic or water cycle.
What is the sun?
100
The percentage of the Earth’s water that is fresh (potable) water.
What is 3?
100
The chemical symbol for water.
What is H2O?
100
Two possible sources of groundwater contamination.
What are landfills and septic tanks? (other acceptable answers include; feed lots, human wastes, animal wastes, fertilizers, and abandoned wells.)
100
The name for a smaller stream that flows into a larger stream.
What is a tributary.
200
The process by which a vapor becomes a liquid or a solid.
What is condensation?
200
The act of adding water to crops.
What is irrigation?
200
The wearing down or washing away of soil and land by the action of water, wind or ice.
What is erosion?
200
Tanks used to hold waste from homes when a sewer line is not available.
What are septic tanks?
200
The three largest oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian?
300
The constant circulation of water from the atmosphere to the land and the oceans and back again.
What is the hydologic (water) cycle?
300
A pit, hole, or shaft sunk into the earth to tap an underground source of water.
What is a well?
300
The movement of water down through the earth’s surface.
What is infiltration?
300
A change in the quality of water that makes it unsuitable for certain uses.
What is pollution or contamination?
300
The five Great Lakes.
What are the Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
400
The temperature at which water changes from a solid into a liquid or vice versa.
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius?
400
Lack of precipitation for a long period of time.
What is a drought?
400
The percentage of the human body composed of water.
What is 66%?
400
A place where water is treated to make it safe to drink.
What is a water treatment plant?
400
A term used to describe the area drained by a river and its tributaries.
What is a river basin or watershed?
500
The temperature at which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vice versa.
What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius?
500
The percentage of the Earth covered with water.
What is about 75-80%?
500
The capacity of porous materials, such as sand and gravel, to transmit water.
What is permeability?
500
On average, almost 26% of the water used in a home is to do this.
What is flush the toilet?
500
Water-saturated lands where aquatic plants and animals live.
What are wetlands or swamps?
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