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The percentage of Earth's water that is saltwater

What is 97%

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Maintaining houseplants, showering, washing your car, and cleaning laundry are all uses of...

What is freshwater

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The aquifer underneath parts of the Sahara Desert containing over 4,300 cubic miles of nonrenewable groundwater that fell 35,000 years ago as precipitation during the ice age

What is the Nubian Aquifer

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The measurement of the cleanliness and healthiness of water

What is water quality

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The most-watched YouTube video of all time

What is "Baby Shark Dance" by Pinkfong

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The people responsible for designing industrial systems to prevent water pollution and regulating human use of clean water

What are environmental engineers

200

The most common use of freshwater in the world

What is agriculture

200

One of the largest aquifers in the world that spans from South Dakota to Texas and is being depleted at a rate equivalent to 18 Colorado Rivers per year. Within 50 years, the entire aquifer is expected be 70% depleted, and once the aquifer goes dry, it will take at least 6,000 years to replenish.

What is the Ogallala Aquifer

200

The measure of how much volume of pore space exists in specific soil

What is porosity

200

The name of the broomstick sport played in the Harry Potter books

What is Quidditch

300

The number of people who die every day from water-borne illnesses

*Note: close estimates will be accepted

What is 4,800

300

The most polluted river in the world; heavily polluted by sewage, industrial waste, and agricultural runoff.

What is the Ganges

300

The qualities of stone/soil that allow for the stone/soil to make a good aquifer

What are porosity and permeability

300

An underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock

What is an aquifer

300

The year of the first moon landing

What is 1969

400

The measure of how basic or acidic water is, in which

  [0-------------7-------------14]

acidic          neutral           basic


*hint: when we tested water from the water fountain for this, the sample turned a light green color

What is pH (potential of Hydrogen)

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The minority of people who are commonly stripped of their right to education due to their community's lack of access to clean water

What are women and girls

400

An area where surface water (like rainfall or river water) infiltrates the ground and replenishes the groundwater stored in an aquifer

What is a recharge area

400

The measure of how easily water flows through soil

What is permeability

400

The athlete who was turned into a crying meme after an emotional speech at his Basketball Hall of Fame induction

Who is Michael Jordan

500

The physical factor of water that affects the growth rate and life cycles of organisms that live in it

What is temperature

500

A river in the United States that no longer reaches the sea due to consistent overuse of its water resources

What is the Colorado River

500

Even if a rock has lots of large pores, the pores still need to be ____ for the rock to be permeable

What is connected

500

All living organisms; flora and fauna

What is biota

500

The name of Beyoncé’s first solo album

What is Dangerously in Love