Water

This is when water evaporates through pores of a plant

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Hydrologic cycle

What are the two main problems with water?

• overuse and pollution

• frozen and too salty to drink

• too many fish and pollution

• color and taste

Categorically, the largest consumer of water in the U.S. is for what purpose?

• agriculture
• industry
• municipal
• recreation

Pollutants entering waterways from a general area, such as runoff from farmland or a parking lot from a suburban community are both examples of...

• decomposition

• point source pollution

• non-point source pollution

• turbidity

Where is most of the Earth's freshwater located?

• In icecaps or glaciers

• In oceans

• In storage tanks

• In lakes

What is desalination?

• The process by which salts are removed from the water

• When water is heated to boiling so water evaporated but salt remains; water vapor is cooled and fresh water collected

• Removing water vapor from local areas

• None of the above

What percent of water on earth is FRESH WATER?

• 97%

• 3%

What is the driving force of the water cycle?

• evaporation from the ocean

• precipitation from rainfall

• runoff from mountains

• heat from the sun

A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater:

• Permeable layer

• Saturation Zone

• Water Table

• Aquifer

A diffuse area such as an entire farming region, a suburban community with many lawns and septic systems or storm runoff from parking lots.

• Point source

• Wastewater

• Nonpoint source

• water pollution