Ch15 - Water Management

Often water must be treated to become _______, safe to drink

• pathogen

• potable

• clarified

• bonifide

Process used in water treatment process where water is pushed through screens, sand, gravel and coal to remove organisms and trash

• filtration

• chlorination

• coagulation

• bioreactors

Which of the following is NOT a residential use of water?

• cooking and drinking

• washing dishes and clothes

• washing cars and watering the lawn

• watering crops

• showers and toilets

What is the best way to CONSERVE water use in an agricultural setting...

• low flow toilets

• reuse cooling water

• drip irrigation

• high power overhead irrigation

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NGSS.3-5-ETS1-2

NGSS.5-ESS3-1

Which of the following is a disadvantage of dams and reservoirs?

• man made lakes used for drinking water, recreation and industry

• hydroelectric power

• existing ecosystems changed, displacing species and humans

• flood control

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NGSS.3-LS4-4

While expensive and inefficient now, the removal of salt from ocean water may help create more potable water in the future

• water transport

• towing icebergs

• desalination plants

• xeriscaping

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Plants absorbing groundwater and pumping it into the atmosphere is called

• Transpiration
• Sublimation
• Evaporation
• None of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process of changing a liquid into vapor

• transpiration
• evaporation
• excavation
• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What percent of all water is fresh water?

• 3%

• 33%

• 72%

• 98%

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Layers of sand, gravel, or rock lying below the water table are called

• Aquducts 
• Aquifinas
• aquifers
• Recharge zone