Water usage and management

Which of the following is an underground layer of gravel, earth or porous rock which contains water?

• Aquifer

• watershed

• Artesian Well

• Water Table

Which of the following is another term for salt water?

• Tears
• Brackish
• Saline
• NaClH2O

When a contaminant cannot be traced to a specific point of discharge it results in which of the following?

• Point Source Pollution
• Non-point Source Pollution
• Discharge Based Pollution
• Hidden Pollution

The measure of sediment or foreign materials stirred up or suspended in a body of water is known as which of the following?

• Turbidity
• Viscosity
• Clarity
• Scarcity

The percent of the world covered by water.

• 79%
• 85%
• 71%
• 97%

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The percent of the earth's surface water is salt/saline?

• 97%
• 68%
• 79%
• 71%

Most of the world's freshwater is found here?

• ocean

• lakes

• rivers

• glaciers

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

How much of the world's surface water is drinkable?

• Less than 1%

• 5%

• 25%

• 99%

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Most of our drinkable water is found where?

• ponds

• ocean

• groundwater

• pool

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What is the land from which surface water drains into a particular lake, river, or other body of water?

• the zone of saturation

• watershed

• an aquifer

• surface water

• the bedrock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4