Random Water Questions
How do Communities get Water?
Vocabulary
Water on Earth
Ways to get Fresh Water
100
What is the biggest ocean in the world?
Pacific Ocean
100
What do you call a place that collects and stores water?
Reservoirs
100
What is a hole dug into the ground to get water?
A well
100
The water in the oceans and seas are what?
Salty
100
What are closed bodies surrounded by land that you can get fresh water from?
Lakes/Rivers
200
About 70 percent of earth is covered by what?
Oceans and Seas
200
What is a network of pipes and tunnels that transport water?
Aqueduct
200
What do you call a supplying of fresh water to farms field?
Irrigation
200
The oceans and seas cover about how many percent of Earth?
70 percent
200
What is the process when you boil seawater to get fresh water?
Distillation
300
The adult human body is about how much percent of water?
70 percent
300
What is a region of land that drains into a river?
Watershed
300
What is the careful uses of natural resources?
Conservation
300
Water is found not only on Earth's surface, but also it's _____?
Underground
300
What is the process when you pump salt water through thin membranes to get fresh water?
Reverse Osmosis
400
What is it called when it rains?
Precipitation
400
What is the aqueduct that goes to Los Angeles from Owens Valley?
Los Angeles Aqueduct
400
What is a spring?
A spring is a natural flow of water from underground.
400
About how many percent of Earth's water is saltwater?
About %97
400
People tap in to ground water by using what?
Wells
500
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River
500
What part of California gets fresh water from 2 rivers?
Southern California
500
What is the type of water that collects in spaces and cracks in rock and soil underground?
Groundwater
500
Most of Earth's usable fresh water is where?
Underground
500
What region is rain is often light and brief and the ground dries up quickly
Desert
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