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Water Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What powers the water cycle?

a)

The Ocean

b)

The Sun

c)

The clouds

d)

Humans

2.

Is water cohesive or ahesive?

a)

Cohesive

b)

Adhesive

c)

None

d)

Both

3.

Why is water important?

a)

It keeps Earth warm

b)

All of the above

c)

Biological functions

d)

Stability for Earth

4.

How many main steps are in the water cycle?

a)

5

b)

12

c)

23

d)

3

5.

What effects water quaility?

a)

Human waste

b)

Chemical Runoff

c)

Fish using the restroom

d)

Plants in the water

6.

What are some good thing humans do for the ocean?

a)

Clean up our messes on the beach

b)

Leave our trash everywhere

c)

Not recycle

d)

Use the restroom in the water

7.

What is point-source pollution?

a)

When you have a generally area

b)

When you can't identify where the pollution is coming form

c)

When you can identify where the pollution is coming form

d)

When you don't know what point-source pollution is

8.

What is a unique property of water?

a)

It cannot be for drinking

b)

It is the only liquid that freezes

c)

Water is the only thing that is pretty

d)

Water has high heat of vaporization

9.

Why is the water cycle important?

a)

It is how water gets back in the ocean

b)

It makes the world prettier

c)

It is how water reaches plants and animals

d)

It is how water gets in the air

10.

What does turbidity mean?

a)

It means how many fish are in the water

b)

It means how many many plants live in the water

c)

It means how many people swim in the water

d)

It means how clean the water is

11.

What is cohesion?

a)

It is when water sticks to water

b)

It is when water sticks to a person

c)

It is when water sticks to another material.

d)

It is when water evaporates

12.

What is adhesion?

a)

It is when water rains

b)

It is when water sticks to water

c)

It is when water goes into a plant to hydrate it

d)

It is when water sticks to another material

13.

What is the most important step in the water cycle?

a)

Condensation

b)

They are all important

c)

Evaporation

d)

Precipitation

14.

What is polarity?

a)

When something has a negative charge

b)

When something has a positive charge

c)

When something has a positive and negative charge

d)

Water's gravitational force

15.

What is transpiration?

a)

When a plant drinks too much water

b)

When plant's water evaporates

c)

The scientific word for water cycle

d)

When a plant drinks water

16.

What is biological functions?

a)

When a plant slowly dies

b)

The scientific word for a specific way that a plant drinks water

c)

When a plant adjusts to long and short term conditions

d)

When a plant adjusts to long term conditions

17.

What is a bioindicator?

a)

When just a plants can tell you if the water is healthy or not

b)

When a living thing in the water tells you if the water is health or not

c)

When just a fish can tells you if the water is healthy or not.

d)

When there is too many fish using the restroom

18.

How does water affect Earth's temperature?

a)

The waves carry warm water all around the world keeping it warm

b)

Water is ten times warmer than other materials

c)

Water heats up faster so when it gets in warm places it gets really hot and heats up the Earth

d)

Water doesn't heat up the Earth at all

19.

What is a feature of water that makes it special?

a)

It keeps Earth warm

b)

Biological functions

c)

All of the above

d)

Polarity

20.

What does evaporation do?

a)

It makes water into a liquid

b)

It turns water invisible

c)

It makes water into a gas

d)

It makes water disappear