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| What number of planet Earth is water? |
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| Where is most water on Earth located? |
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| What percent of Earth's water is salt? |
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| What percent of Earth's water is fresh? |
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| What state of matter is most of fresh water on Earth? |
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| Is water vapor a solid, liquid, or a gas? |
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| Is shallow groundwater a solid, liquid, or a gas? |
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| Is a glacier a solid, liquid, or a gas? |
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| What is the source of energy for the water cycle? |
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| True or False: Most of Earth's liquid fresh water is found in the form of lakes. |
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| True or False: In the water cycle, precipitation returns salt water to Earth. |
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| True or False: The process in which leaves of plants give off water into the atmosphere is condensation. |
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False:
Answer:Transpiration |
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| True or False: Water vapor gains energy during the process of condensation. |
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| Precipitation that soaks into the ground trickles downward due to_______. |
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| Allows water to pass through |
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| Area that is totally filled with water |
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| Space between rock and soil particles |
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| Does not let water pass through |
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| Layer above the water table |
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| Top of the saturated zone |
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| Any underground layer of rock or sediment that holds water is called an ________________. |
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| True or False: The depth of the water table is always the same, even over a large area of land. |
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| What raises and lowers the level of the water table? |
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Raise: Heavy Rain/ Melted Snow
Lower: Dry Weather |
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| Where the water table meets the ground surface, groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock in places called ___________. |
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| How do you get water from an aquifer with a well? |
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| You drill below the water table |
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| True or False: Pumping water out of an aquifer in a well raises the water level near the well. |
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| New waters that enters an aquifer from the surface is called ___________. |
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| The addition of any substance that has a negative effect on water or the living things that depend on water is called __________ _________. |
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| The substances that cause pollution are called ____________. |
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| Is it safe to bathe or swim in polluted water as long as you dont drink it? |
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| What are some types of pollutants found in water? |
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| Desease causing organisms, metals, industrial chemicals, and radio active wastes. |
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| List four major sources of water pollution. |
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| Human waste, agricultirul chemicals, industrial waste, and runoff from roads. |
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What is the difference between a point source and a
non-point source? |
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| A point source can be identified exactly where the pollutants came from, a non-point source cannot be tied to a specific point. |
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| How can floods cause polluted surface water? |
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| Sewers can overflow and contaminate surface water with suage. |
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| A natural or human made lake that is used as a source of drinking for a city or town. |
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| animals that live on other living things, often causing harm. |
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| human made substances that can harm humans and other living things. |
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| Water that goes down the drain |
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| When polution or harmful substances get into an environment |
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| The water from rain storms that washes across the land and into streams. |
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In the Up, Up, and Away? lab. What did the hot plate represent?
Water in the beaker?
Glass Plate?
Space between top of beaker and glass plate? |
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Hot Plate: Sun
Water in Beaker: Ocean
Glass Plate: Cloud
Space between top of beaker and glass plate: Atmosphere |
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| Lab: There was more water in the beaker before the lab started and after the lab ended there was less water in the beaker. Where did the water go? |
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| The water evaporated and ended up on the glass plate and some escaped into the atmosphere. |
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| Where is most thermal energy stored? |
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| Where is a small amount of thermal energy stored? |
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