Section 1: Physical Properties of Water
By what type of bonds are hydrogen atoms bound tightly to an oxygen atom? (H20)
What is a polar covalent bond?
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What is salinization?
What is the process of increasing the salt content of soil?
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An insect borne disease where immunity after recovery is not permanent.
What is Malaria?
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What is relatively clean wastewater from household appliances?
What is Graywater?
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What is an ungulate?
What is a hoofed mammal?
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What is the process by which water evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form clouds, and then precipitates back to Earth in the form of rain or snow?
What is the water cycle?
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What kind of landscape did the Mongols live in?
What is the steppe?
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This part of the world has higher standards of living, economic, industrial, military, and organizational might.
What is the Global North?
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What is an aquatic mollusk with a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell?
What are bivalves?
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What was the process by which cities reengineered their water courses as well as their water usage patterns and for the first time in human history became self-sustaining habitats for human occupation?
What is the Sanitary Revolution?
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What is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful in terms of survival, diamonds command a higher price in the market?
What is the paradox of value?
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What did Bedouins follow on their migratory routes?
What is a network of oases?
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Victims of this disease die a horrific death of dehydration from uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea. John Snow also created a map of this disease which linked it to a singular water pump.
What is Cholera?
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What is the largest fossil aquifer in the world?
What is the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer?
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Where is the Great Garbage Patch located?
What is between Hawaii and California?
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Where is the vast majority of consumable water located?
What is the far underground / icecaps?
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What reason is the term “Neolithic Revolution” seen as misleading?
What is in reality a gradual process?
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Aguas del Tunari bought this country’s water agency and took advantage it raising prices and reducing the amount of clean water.
What is Bolivia?
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What is the forcing of saltwater across a semi-permeable membrane composed of a film called, and wo employed it in the USA?
What is Reverse-Osmosis (RO) Filtration employed by John F Kennedy?
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What invasive species of fish dominates Lake Victoria?
What is the Nile Perch?
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What is the most promising water replacement?
What is Formamide / CH3NO?
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What two cities did China's Grand Canal connect?
What is Beijing and Shanghai?
This number of American homes still utilize a septic system as of 2020.
What is 20 million?
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What are the three great Siberian Rivers?
What is the Ob-Irtyshm the Lena, and the Yenisei?
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What is the film in reverse osmosis filtration composed of?
What is the M-phenylene diamene and trimesoyl chloride
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