water pollution and conservation

Water is a what type of resource?

• renewable resource

• non-renewable resource

• continuous resource

Why is fresh water a limited resource?

• It isn't because it is a renewable resource

• 97% of water is in the oceans and too salty to drink.

• Only 2.5% is drinkable and is stored in icecaps, rivers, and lakes.

Where most freshwater is stored is in _________.

• Groundwater
• pH
• Glaciers
• Sea water

What are harmful material in the environment?

• Nonrenewable resources
• recycle
• reuses
• pollution

Which word means to use less of a resource?

• reduce
• reuse
• recycle
• conservation

Which words means to break down a product and use its material again?

• reuse
• reduce
• recycle
• conservation

What are resources that can be replaced during a human lifetime?

• renewable resources
• nonrenewable resources
• conservation
• pollution

Which word means to use something again and again?

• reduce
• reuse
• recycle
• conservation

What are resources that cannot be replaced during a human lifetime called?

• pollutants
• conservation
• natural resources
  recycle
• nonrenewable resources

2/3 of freshwater on Earth is "locked away" in what water source location?

• atmosphere
• rivers and lakes
• underground
• ice and glaciers