Spheres
The hydrosphere is made up of what?
What is water on earth
Rivers, Lakes, Wetlands, and Ground water are all examples of what?
What is Freshwater
The word for cleaning little dirt or pollution out of water
What is Filter
What is the term for growing crops such as vegetables and raising livetock such as cows, usually for food
what is the term for supplying water to land by human methods to aid crop production
What sphere are we apart of?
What is Biosphere
What is the name of pollution that can be seen by the naked eye?
what is Macropollution
Rain washing farmers fertilizers into a river is an example of what?
What is Water pollution
What is the term for human-made waster that enters and spoils the environment
what is pollution
Name 3 things that exist in the biosphere
Students share answers
What is the geosphere
Evaporation is when water changes from _______ to _________
what is liquid to gas
This occurs when substances added to water which make it unsafe and unhealthy for the animals, plants and humans who need it to survive.
What is water pollution
What is a budget?
What is The amount of money available for some purpose
Volume tells you what?
What is How much fits inside (typically liquid)
The overflow of rainfall or snowmelt that can't be absorbed by the soil or plants
what is runoff
One way to show an increase in water pollution using data is by making a what?
what is a graph (plotting data)
What is the term for the way two or more things work or "act" together within a system
What is an Interaction.
What is the best way engineers have found to monitor groundwater?
What is using satellites in space (GRACE)
Tell me the sphere that is made up of all gasses
what is Atmosphere
Desalination is the process in which WHAT is removed from water?
What is Salt and minerals (half points if only has one of the two)
Name three things that can be water pollution
Students read answers aloud
What is the term for the limits on how a problem can be solved, costs, materials, or time? (hint- it starts with a C)
what is constraints