What part of the water cycle takes place when water vapor sticks to particles in the air and forms clouds?

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Water accumulation

What is an aquifer?

• An underground area of rock and soil that is soaked with water.

• A freshwater source that is frozen year round.

• A river that runs through a mountain.

• An open area where glaciers melt.

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How much of Earth’s water is fresh water?

• 1 percent

• 3 percent

• 77 percent

• 97 percent

Which of the following does not make up part of Earth’s surface water?

• wetlands

• rivers

• aquifers

• lakes

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A rock’s ability to allow the flow of water through it is called

• permeability

• porosity

• recharge

• distribution

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Match the following

• Aquifer

• area of Earth’s surface where water percolates

  down into the aquifer

• river system

• underground formation containing groundwater

• groundwater

• flowing network of surface water

• recharge zone

• area of land drained by a river

• watershed

• water stored under Earth’s surface

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

• pathogen

• potable

• clarified

• bonifide

Purification of salt water or brackish (slightly salty) water by removal of dissolved salts

• distillation

• desalination

• reverse osmosis

• microfiltration

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Which category uses the most water?

• agriculture

• cooling systems

• industrial

• residential

In order to combat the depletion of fresh water, we must _______.

• pay more money for it

• use only salt water

• conserve water

• create water from asteroids.