One Well: Review

One Well:

Pollution & Access

Text Questions

Pollution in the Well

Paragraph 3 explains problems caused by polluted water except:

a. Many people get sick from using polluted water.

b. Wildlife or animals get sick from polluted water.

c. Polluted water can hurt habitats or the places where plants and animals live.

d. Polluted lakes, streams, and shorelines look dirty and ugly.​

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Pollution in the Well

Paragraph 3 explains problems caused by polluted water except:

a. Many people get sick from using polluted water.

b. Wildlife or animals get sick from polluted water.

c. Polluted water can hurt habitats or the places where plants and animals live.

d. Polluted lakes, streams, and shorelines look dirty and ugly.​

Pollution in the Well

How can the movement of water through the water cycle HELP make water cleaner or less polluted?

a. Everything is a lot cleaner after it rains.

b. When water evaporates, dirt and chemicals are left behind.

c. Runoff from backyards, city streets, and farms flows into lakes, rivers, and streams.

d. Sometimes pollution mixes with precipitation and it turns into acid rain or acid snow.

Which answer helps to CLEAN the water?

Pollution in the Well

How can the movement of water through the water cycle HELP make water cleaner or less polluted?

a. Everything is a lot cleaner after it rains.

b. When water evaporates, dirt and chemicals are left behind.

c. Runoff from backyards, city streets, and farms flows into lakes, rivers, and streams.

d. Sometimes pollution mixes with precipitation and it turns into acid rain or acid snow.

Pollution in the Well

Where did you find the information to answer this question?

a. Paragraph 1

b. Paragraph 2

c. Paragraph 3

d. The boxes with the illustrations

Pollution in the Well

Where did you find the information to answer this question?

a. Paragraph 1

b. Paragraph 2

c. Paragraph 3

d. The boxes with the illustrations

Pollution in the Well

How can the movement of water through the land and the water cycle make water pollution WORSE? (Hint: 2 answers)

a. Everything is a lot cleaner after it rains.

b. When water evaporates, dirt and chemicals are left behind.

c. Runoff from backyards, city streets, and farms flows into lakes, rivers, and streams.

d. Sometimes pollution mixes with precipitation and it turns into acid rain or acid snow.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of this text?

• A bucket of water weighs about 10 kg.

• Many people in Africa and Asia do not have access to enough water.

• People use water to drink, shower, wash their car and water the garden.

• Difference in rainfall means less water for some places and less water for people.

Multiple Choice

Which detail best supports the main idea?

• Other families don’t have access to enough water to meet even these most basic needs.

• Because water is not evenly distributed across the globe, nearly ⅕ of the world’s population does not have access to enough water.

• China and India are home to ⅓ of the world’s population, yet they only have access to 1/10 of the world’s freshwater.

• North America has ⅓ of the population of Africa, yet North Americans use three times as much water.

Multiple Choice

The first paragraph reads, “There, they gather water for the day - just a few jugs, barely enough for drinking.” What word or phrase could best replace jugs in this sentence?

• People

• Bottles

• Animals

• Unit of time

  (like seconds or minutes)

Multiple Choice

Which box does this caption best support?

• Top

• Left

• Right