Types of Water Sources
This type of water source comes from underground and is stored in aquifers
What is Groundwater?
The process by which water changes from liquid to gas and rises into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
The main use of freshwater worldwide
What is agriculture?
True or False: The amount of water on the earth has not changed from the beginning of time and will not change.
What is True?
Large bodies of saltwater that cover about 71% of Earth's surface
What are oceans?
The stage where water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
The average number of liters of water used per person per day in Australia
What is 100-300 litres?
What happens if you throw boiling hot water into cold air?
What is it freezes?
This type of water is stored in lakes, rivers, and reservoirs
What is surface water?
When water falls back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
A developing country where access to clean drinking water is a major challenge
What is Ethiopia?
What percentage of the earths water is salt water?
A major Australian river system that supplies water to many communities
What is the Murray-Darling Basin?
The process where water moves through the soil and into underground storage.
What is infiltration?
A global event that affects water availability by causing droughts and floods.
What is El Nino?
The Ganges River in India is deemed sacred to Hindus, state one spiritual use of water?
What is Baptisms and cremations
These massive frozen stores of freshwater are melting due to climate change
What are glaciers?
The term for water moving across the surface of the Earth into rivers and lakes.
What is run-off?
The country known for its advanced water recycling system, using reclaimed water for drinking.
What is Singapore?
Ordinary water consists of ......hydrogen atoms and .... oxygen atom
What is Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom?