Where is the easiest place for Deeveeah to get fresh water to fill the Stanley?
Ice caps
Oceans
Liquid surface water
Glaciers
What is liquid surface water?
A large body of water that is still and surrounded by land
Stream
Glacier
Lake
Fresh water
What is lake?
A large, slow-moving, long-lasting accumulation of snow and ice that develops on land
Stream
Fresh water
Glacier
Wetlands
What is glacier?
About what percentage of Earth's water is salt water?
25%
15%
97%
55%
What is 97%?
Water found in rivers, lakes, glaciers, ice sheets, and underground that contains low concentrations of salt
What is fresh water?
Areas where standing water covers the soil or an area where the ground is very wet
Lake
Fresh water
Glacier
Wetlands
What is wetlands?
Where does Earth's largest supply of fresh water come from?
Ponds
Oceans
Glaciers
Lakes
What are glaciers?
What is one way humans can conserve fresh water?
A) Watering your classroom plant
B) Washing your glue-covered hands
C) Take shorter showers
D) Filling up an Owala bottle
What is taking shorter showers?
Boe Barr is trying to find the largest source of water on Earth. Where can it be found?
What are the oceans?
The layer of gas surrounding Earth, held in place by gravity and composed of a limited number of elements, primarily nitrogen and oxygen
What is the atmosphere?
A small body of fresh water that flows into a river
A) River
B) Stream
C) Creeks
D) Flivulets
What is stream?
Laylah is planning a giant party and wants to use all the water on Earth for drinks. Bro tells her that only a small amount of Earth's water is actually freshwater that people can use. How much fresh water is in all of the water sources on Earth?
What is 2.5 to 3%?
Dr. Chrystan is making a chart showing where freshwater is stored on Earth. He already labeled glaciers as the largest source. Now he needs to label the source that holds about 30% of Earth's freshwater. What is that source?
A) salt water
B) glaciers
C) groundwater
D) oceans
What is groundwater?
Starbucks is traveling around the world searching for freshwater sources. They have already visited glaciers and drilled wells to find groundwater. Beside underground and in glaciers, where else can you find fresh water?
What are lakes, streams, and rivers?
A huge party needs 50 tons of plov to feed everyone. Cooking that much food requires a lot of fresh water. Where is the most fresh water found?
A) oceans and clouds
B) rivers and streams
C) glaciers and underground
D) wetlands and marshes
What are glaciers and underground?
Soohfifi, Alelili, and Yeesengsing are making 1,000 boba teas. Narleigh says they should make fewer because they are using too much fresh water. Why is it important to conserve fresh water?
What is it is important to conserve water because most of Earth’s water is saltwater. People and many other organisms must have freshwater to live. People use freshwater faster than it can be naturally replenished through the water cycle.
AL steals every pizza on Earth and even takes all the water from the oceans. About what percentage of Earth’s water did AL steal?
A) 97%
B) 70%
C) 54%
D) 20%
What is 97%?
Polar bears are being affected by PLASTIC POLLUTION, and glaciers are melting faster than before. When glaciers melt, is more salt water or fresh water being added to Earth’s water?
What is fresh water?
Buldak noodles are scrumptious however, eating them often uses a lot of fresh water. Why is it important to conserve fresh water?
What is people and many other organisms must have freshwater to live. People use freshwater faster than it can be naturally replenished through the water cycle?
Lousee took all of Earth’s water and poured it into a giant tank of 100 buckets.
Explain how many buckets would be fresh water and how many would be saltwater, and what this shows about conserving water.
What is 97 buckets of saltwater and 3 buckets of fresh water?