Water Quality
The percentage of Earth's water that is saltwater
What is 97%
Maintaining houseplants, showering, washing your car, and cleaning laundry are all uses of...
What is freshwater
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
The measurement of the cleanliness and healthiness of water
What is water quality
The most-watched YouTube video of all time
What is "Baby Shark Dance" by Pinkfong
The people responsible for designing industrial systems to prevent water pollution and regulating human use of clean water
What are environmental engineers
The most common use of freshwater in the world
What is agriculture
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
The measure of how much volume of pore space exists in specific soil
What is porosity
The name of the broomstick sport played in the Harry Potter books
What is Quidditch
The number of people who die every day from water-borne illnesses
*Note: close estimates will be accepted
What is 4,800
The most polluted river in the world; heavily polluted by sewage, industrial waste, and agricultural runoff.
What is the Ganges
The qualities of stone/soil that allow for the stone/soil to make a good aquifer
What are porosity and permeability
An underground layer of water-bearing material, consisting of permeable or fractured rock
What is an aquifer
The year of the first moon landing
What is 1969
The measure of how basic or acidic water is, in which
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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)
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
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
The measure of how easily water flows through soil
What is permeability
The athlete who was turned into a crying meme after an emotional speech at his Basketball Hall of Fame induction
Who is Michael Jordan
The physical factor of water that affects the growth rate and life cycles of organisms that live in it
What is temperature
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
Even if a rock has lots of large pores, the pores still need to be ____ for the rock to be permeable
What is connected
All living organisms; flora and fauna
What is biota
The name of Beyoncé’s first solo album
What is Dangerously in Love