Facts About Water

1. What percentage of the earth is covered with water?

A) 71%
B) 50%
C) 71%
D) 33%

2. What is the source of energy for the water cycle?

A) Wind energy
B) Coal fired power plants
C) Ocean tides
D) The sun
E) The earth's rotation

3. What is the name for a small stream that flows into a bigger stream?

A) Tributary
B) Lentic stream
C) Small stream
D) Loptic stream
E) Dendritic stream

4. What is the largest ocean?

A) Lake Superior
B) Pacific
C) Atlantic
D) Indian
E) Arctic

5. In which watershed is Portland, Maine located?

A) Atlantic
B) Michigan
C) Moosehead
D) Atlantic
E) Sebago

6. What is the process by which vapor becomes a liquid or solid?

A) transpiration
B) condensation
C) evaporation
D) precipitation
E) infiltration

7. What is most of the freshwater used for in the USA?

A) industry
B) mining
C) irrigation
D) public supply
E) livestock

8. What state uses the most freshwater in the USA?

A) Arizona
B) California
C) New York
D) Colorado
E) Florida

9. What state uses the most water for mining?

A) Texas
B) Montana
C) Washington
D) Wyoming
E) Oklahoma

10. What makes water smell like rotten eggs?

A) dead animals in the water
B) it really is rotten eggs in the water
C) the type of rocks that the water flows through
D) man made pollution
E) Hydrogen sulfide gas

11. Sometimes a glass of drinking water looks cloudy or milky - why does this happen?

A) it is really soap stuck to the glass
B) it is the turbidity
C) tiny air bubbles
D) water purification chemicals from the water treatment plant
E) pollution

12. What percentage of your body is water?

A) up to 60%
B) up to 70%
C) up to 30%
D) up to 50%
E) up to 40%

13. What is the longest river in the world?

A) Mississippi
B) Rio Grande
C) Congo
D) Nile
E) Amazon

14. How much water does the average person use each day?

A) 60 to 80 gallons
B) 80 to 100 gallons
C) 40 to 60 gallons
D) 20 to 40 gallons
E) 100 to 120 gallons

15. Water is the only substance that can exist as a liquid, gas and solid?

A) True
B) False

16. Water covers about 70% of the entire earth.

A) False
B) True

17. The water in the ocean is good to drink.

A) False
B) True

18. Water is a(n) _________ resource.

A) extinct
B) renewable
C) unusable
D) abundant

19. The water that dinosaurs drank _________.

A) was salt water
B) is gone
C) is still in the water cycle
D) was not the same kind of water that we drink today

20. After rain falls upon the earth, it may _________.

A) evaporate again very soon
B) all of the above
C) travel downhill until it reaches the ocean
D) stay underground for years

21. What are clouds?

A) masses of evaporated water
B) masses of condensed water formed by cooled water vapors
C) masses of condensed potato soup
D) masses of cotton balls

22. If we use too much water, someday it will all be gone.

A) False
B) True

23. Water vapor is a _________.

A) gas
B) solid
C) plasma
D) liquid

24. Plants and trees contribute to the water cycle by evaporating through their leaves by _________.

A) evaporation
B) condensation
C) precipitation
D) infiltration
E) transpiration

25. Two percent of our fresh water supply is unusable because it is frozen in _________.

A) tundra
B) mountains
C) glaciers
D) oceans

26. When water hits land and is soaked into the ground, the water becomes _________.

A) plant food
B) vapor
C) solid
D) groundwater

27. The water cycle is also called the hydrologic cycle.

A) True
B) False

28. Water contracts (gets smaller) when it freezes.

A) False
B) True

29. Water has a high surface tension (sticks to itself).

A) False
B) True

30. Condensation is water coming out of the air.

A) True
B) False

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