Vocab 1
a water shortage
Drought
How can you conserve water?
Take shorter showers, use less water, turn off faucet when rinsing dishes or brushing teeth, ANSWERS MAY VARY
one thing that causes a certain outcome
Factor
Give an example of precipitation.
Rain, snow, sleet, hail, misting
Who won the contest in Rain and Fire?
Rain
made dirty by adding something harmful
Contaminated
What are some effects of drought?
Famine, refugees, disease, and death
to cause something to change
Affect
How do humans contaminate water?
Putting sewage, garbage, and harmful chemicals in the water
What does reduce mean?
Make something smaller in amount
ability to have or get something
Access
What are some causes of drought?
Not enough rain, changes in climate, water quality, high demand, contaminated water, high use of water
a large area of a country or the world
Region
What things contaminate water?
Germs, parasites, chemicals, and more
to make something new from something old
Recycle
to use something carefully so you don't run out
Conserve
3.4 million people die from lack of clean water each year. (True/ False)
True
referring to a specific item or thing
Particular
What US state was at risk of experiencing a drought? (from the video)
California
to ruin something
Destroy
a shortage of food
Famine
Water covers _____ percent of earth's surface.
70%
the effect of one thing on another thing
Impact
Making a car using 65,000 gallons of water is an indirect use of water.
true
something that occurs at the end
Final