Surface Water
What is the term for water that collects on the surface of the ground?
Answer: What is surface water?
What is water stored beneath the Earth’s surface called?
Answer: What is groundwater?
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Answer: What is approximately 70%?
What is one way humans harm surface water?
What is pollution or dam construction?
How do human activities most likely affect groundwater?
What is pollutants percolate through the soil and enter the water table?
Name one example of a surface water source.
Answer: What is a river, lake, or stream?
What do you call the upper surface of groundwater in an aquifer?
Answer: What is the water table?
What is the movement of ocean water caused by the wind called?
Answer: What are surface currents?
Name one activity that causes groundwater contamination.
What is the use of fertilizers or pesticides?
How can community leaders protect lakes from pollution?
What is prohibited trash dumping in flow-through wetlands and along shorelines?
What process moves water from surface reservoirs into the atmosphere?
Answer: What is evaporation?
What is the name of the underground layers of rock or sediment that hold water?
Answer: What are aquifers?
What are deep ocean currents primarily driven by?
Answer: What is temperature and salinity differences (thermohaline circulation)?
How do human activities influence ocean acidification?
What is by increasing CO2 emissions?
How does planting crops that need less fertilizer improve water quality?
What is it reduces the runoff of pollutants into nearby streams and lakes?
Surface water flows into larger bodies of water through what natural system?
Answer: What is a watershed?
How does groundwater recharge?
Answer: What is through precipitation and infiltration?
What is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth?
Answer: What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is one way humans negatively impact marine life?
What is overfishing, plastic pollution, or habitat destruction?
How does ocean acidification harm marine organisms?
What is it lowers the pH, making it difficult for organisms like corals to survive?
What is the term for the boundary that separates one watershed from another?
Answer: What is a divide?
Name one way human activity negatively impacts groundwater.
Answer: What is over-pumping, pollution, or contamination from chemicals?
Name one way ocean systems benefit human life.
What is providing oxygen, regulating climate, or supporting marine biodiversity?
What is one positive way humans can protect water systems?
What is through conservation efforts, reducing pollution, or restoring habitats?
Which human activity increases the formation of dead zones?
What is excessive use of fertilizers leading to runoff into the ocean?