Water Cycle
Aquifers
Conservation
Water Data
Misc.
100
This is the unending circulation of Earth's water supply.
What is the water cycle?
100
This is the rate at which a solid can transmit fluids through interconnected pore spaces.
What is permeability?
100
These include coal, oil, and natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
100
These are three things fresh water is used for.
What is drinking, cooking, showering, etc.
100
This is when pollution comes from a specific, known location.
What is point source pollution?
200
This is the energy source of the water cycle.
What is the sun?
200
This is the measure of the amount of pore space in a solid.
What is porosity?
200
This is one benefit of using solar energy.
What is decreasing pollution; self-sustainability; etc.
200
This is Earth's largest reservoir.
What are oceans?
200
This is when pollution does not have a specific origin.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
300
This is when water sinks directly into the ground and forms groundwater.
What is infiltration?
300
This is the top of the zone of saturation.
What is the water table?
300
This is the act that requires industries to reduce or eliminate the release of point source pollution into surface waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
300
This is the number of gallons used per minute when you take a shower.
What is 5 gallons?
300
This is the type of rock that usually underlies karst topography.
What is limestone?
400
This is calving of glaciers.
What is when a piece of a glacier breaks of and melts.
400
This is a depression in the water table, often the result of well over pumping.
What is the cone of depression?
400
This is the U.S.'s most important air pollution law.
What is the Clean Air Act?
400
This is the percentage of Earth's total water supply that is usable fresh water.
What is less than 1%?
400
This is how caverns are formed.
What is erosion?
500
Plants release water into the atmosphere through this process.
What is transpiration?
500
This is where springs are formed.
What is where the water table and ground surface intersect?
500
This is when loggers cut down some trees and leave some behind.
What is selective cutting?
500
This is the function of the atmosphere's ozone layer.
What is to shield Earth from harmful UV radiation from the sun?
500
This is where sinkholes form.
What is where rainwater containing carbon dioxide dissolves underground rock?
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