Year 7 Geography Water Quiz

Identify the three states of water.

• Ice, snow, solid.

• Ice caps, rivers, clouds.

• Solid, liquid, gas.

• Cloud, vapor, fog.

What is the percentage of salt water and fresh water on the Earth?

• 70% salt, 30% fresh

• 25% salt, 75% fresh

• 97% salt, 3% fresh

• 3% salt, 97% fresh

Water can connect people and places as it moves through the environment. Identify the list below with all positive impacts.

• Be used in a spiritual ritual, disrupt a platypus' ecosystem.

• Knock down a bridge, flood a house, drown a cow.

• Grow crops, trade, clean Miss Outteridge's car.

What am I? I am a resource that comes from the natural environment.

• A renewable resource.

• An environmental resource.

• A natural resource.

• A continuous resource.

What am I? I am a resource that will replenish over time if humans don’t use me too quickly.

• An environmental resource.

• A non-renewable resource.

• A continuous resource.

• A renewable resource.

What am I? I am a resource that can’t be replaced once it has been used.

• A continuous resource.

• A tree.

• A non-renewable resource.

• A renewable resource.

What am I? I am a resource that will never, ever run out! Woo hoo!

• A continuous resource.

• Water.

• A non-continuous resource.

• An environmental resource.

What am I? I move exceptionally slowly and am created by the accumulation (build up) and compaction (squashing together) of snow to form ice.

• An ice hat.

• A glacier.

• An ice cap.

• Permafrost.

What am I? I am the soil beneath the surface of the Earth and am always frozen.

• Frost.

• Permafrost.

• An ice cap.

• A glacier.

What am I? I am frozen water and cover a very large area.

• A glacier.

• An ice cap.

• The Antarctic.

• Permafrost.