Industrial waste, oil spills, fertizers, pesticides, sewage, and chemical dumping.
What are sources of water pollution caused by humans?
The measure of how much people take from nature compared to the amount of natural resources available for people.
What is the Ecological footprint?
The earth has a fixed amount
Why is water important?
Take shorter showers, turn off taps, use a reusable water bottle, check sinks for leaks
What are ways to conserve water?
When a solid turns into a gas
What is sublimation?
The process of improving water quality by removing pollutants.
What is water treatment?
Ways we impact our planet
What is water use, food, energy use, transportation and homes?
all water including salt, fresh water, aquifer or ice caps
What is part of the water system?
Two particles of oxygen and one particle of hydrogen
What is the composition of water?
When a gas turns into a solid?
What is deposition?
It is typically colourless, odourless, and flavourless.
What is a fresh water?
Non-profit organization that promotes watershed management in a way that balances human, environmental, and economic needs.
What is the conservation authority?
in all of its cells, organs, tissues and regulating temperature
How does the body use water?
Liquid water, water vapour, ice
What are the three states of matter that water exists in?
transpiration
How is water transferred into the air by plants through evaporation from leaves, stems and flowers?
Water with a very high salt content.
What is brine water?
The lack of sufficient freshwater resources to meet the demands for water in a region.
What is water scarcity?
dishwashers, laundry, fountains, drinking, swimming
What is how we use water in our lives?
different forms of water
What is ice, rain, water vapour, steam and snow?
When a gas turns into a solid
What is deposition?
Waste clumps created by coagulation.
What is floc?
all of our appliances are energy efficient
What are ways to reduce our footprint?
An area of land where all water collects in the same place. E.g. - a river
What is a watershed?
freezing point and boiling point
what is zero degrees and one hundred degrees.
Changes in states of water in the water cycle.
What are melting, deposition, evaporation, sublimation, condensation, and freezing?