Groundwater
Water stored beneath the earth's surface is called this?
What is groundwater?
Water that lies on the top of the ground in puddles, lakes, or rivers.
What is surface water?
The area of land from which water drains into a river, stream, or other waterbody.
What is a watershed?
Doing this while brushing your teeth saves water.
What is shut the water off?
Name what the world’s water moving between lakes, rivers, oceans, the atmosphere, and the land is called.
What is the water cycle.
Soil or rock containing useable quantities of water
What is an aquifer?
Overflowing rivers cause this to happen
What is flooding?
A series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border formed by glaciers and containing 20% of the Earth's fresh usable surface water.
What are the Great Lakes?
Stuck helping mom or dad wash dishes? Name which may use less water: washing dishes under a running tap or washing dishes in a fully loaded dishwasher.
What is washing dishes in a fully loaded dishwasher?
The three physical states of water.
What is a liquid (water), a gas (vapor), or a solid (ice).
The depth at which the soil becomes completely saturated with water.
What is the water table?
Dumping waste into the water causes this
What is pollution?
Name all 5 Great Lakes. Hint: H-O-M-E-S
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
Name how much a leaking faucet can waste per day: 5 gallons, 20 gallons, or 100 gallons.
What is 100 gallons? That's about 2 bath tubs full of water!
Name at least two forms of precipitation.
What are rain, hail, sleet, or snow? Any two listed are acceptable.
Recharge to the groundwater supply
What is rain or snow melt?
This process causes river banks to wear away
What is erosion?
The number of lakes in Michigan that are larger than 5 acres. (A. 1,000; B. 11,000; C. 51,000)
B. What is 11,000 lakes?
Name the activity that wastes the most water per day in the average home: running the tap while washing the dishes, using a garbage disposal, a leaky toilet, or long showers.
What is a leaky toilet?
•A leaky toilet can waste about 200 gallons of water a day!!
•Test your toilets with your parents. Place a drop of food coloring in the tank and if the color shows up in the bowl before flushing, you have a leak!
Name the process where a liquid changes into a gas or vapor, often due to heat.
What is evaporation?
A spring that periodically spurts jets of hot water and steam into the air
What is a geyser?
Two fun ways to use surface water
What are swimming and canoeing?
In Michigan, you are never more than _____ miles from an inland lake. (A. 6 miles; B. 50 miles; C. 100 miles)
What is 6 miles? Also, you are never more than 85 miles from one of the Great Lakes!
Name what uses less water a 5 minute shower or taking a bath.
What is taking a 5 minute shower?
•While it might be fun to splash in a warm bath, it takes 70 gallons of water to fill a tub(580 lbs!).
It only 10-25 gallons for a 5 minute shower.
The changing of water vapor (water in its gas form) into a liquid droplets in the form of dew, fog, or clouds.
What is condensation?