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Facts About Water
Contribuição de: Trieu
(Autor original: Ochs)
  • 1. What percentage of the earth is covered with water?
A) 50%
B) 33%
C) 71%
D) 71%
  • 2. What is the source of energy for the water cycle?
A) Coal fired power plants
B) The earth's rotation
C) Ocean tides
D) Wind energy
E) The sun
  • 3. What is the name for a small stream that flows into a bigger stream?
A) Lentic stream
B) Loptic stream
C) Small stream
D) Tributary
E) Dendritic stream
  • 4. What is the largest ocean?
A) Lake Superior
B) Atlantic
C) Arctic
D) Pacific
E) Indian
  • 5. In which watershed is Portland, Maine located?
A) Michigan
B) Atlantic
C) Moosehead
D) Atlantic
E) Sebago
  • 6. What is the process by which vapor becomes a liquid or solid?
A) precipitation
B) evaporation
C) condensation
D) infiltration
E) transpiration
  • 7. What is most of the freshwater used for in the USA?
A) industry
B) livestock
C) public supply
D) irrigation
E) mining
  • 8. What state uses the most freshwater in the USA?
A) New York
B) Florida
C) California
D) Arizona
E) Colorado
  • 9. What state uses the most water for mining?
A) Washington
B) Wyoming
C) Montana
D) Oklahoma
E) Texas
  • 10. What makes water smell like rotten eggs?
A) the type of rocks that the water flows through
B) dead animals in the water
C) it really is rotten eggs in the water
D) Hydrogen sulfide gas
E) man made pollution
  • 11. Sometimes a glass of drinking water looks cloudy or milky - why does this happen?
A) water purification chemicals from the water treatment plant
B) pollution
C) it is really soap stuck to the glass
D) tiny air bubbles
E) it is the turbidity
  • 12. What percentage of your body is water?
A) up to 50%
B) up to 70%
C) up to 40%
D) up to 60%
E) up to 30%
  • 13. What is the longest river in the world?
A) Rio Grande
B) Congo
C) Mississippi
D) Amazon
E) Nile
  • 14. How much water does the average person use each day?
A) 40 to 60 gallons
B) 20 to 40 gallons
C) 100 to 120 gallons
D) 60 to 80 gallons
E) 80 to 100 gallons
  • 15. Water is the only substance that can exist as a liquid, gas and solid?
A) False
B) True
  • 16. Water covers about 70% of the entire earth.
A) True
B) False
  • 17. The water in the ocean is good to drink.
A) False
B) True
  • 18. Water is a(n) _________ resource.
A) unusable
B) abundant
C) extinct
D) renewable
  • 19. The water that dinosaurs drank _________.
A) was salt water
B) was not the same kind of water that we drink today
C) is gone
D) is still in the water cycle
  • 20. After rain falls upon the earth, it may _________.
A) stay underground for years
B) all of the above
C) travel downhill until it reaches the ocean
D) evaporate again very soon
  • 21. What are clouds?
A) masses of condensed water formed by cooled water vapors
B) masses of evaporated water
C) masses of condensed potato soup
D) masses of cotton balls
  • 22. If we use too much water, someday it will all be gone.
A) True
B) False
  • 23. Water vapor is a _________.
A) gas
B) solid
C) plasma
D) liquid
  • 24. Plants and trees contribute to the water cycle by evaporating through their leaves by _________.
A) condensation
B) infiltration
C) transpiration
D) precipitation
E) evaporation
  • 25. Two percent of our fresh water supply is unusable because it is frozen in _________.
A) tundra
B) mountains
C) oceans
D) glaciers
  • 26. When water hits land and is soaked into the ground, the water becomes _________.
A) plant food
B) vapor
C) groundwater
D) solid
  • 27. The water cycle is also called the hydrologic cycle.
A) True
B) False
  • 28. Water contracts (gets smaller) when it freezes.
A) False
B) True
  • 29. Water has a high surface tension (sticks to itself).
A) False
B) True
  • 30. Condensation is water coming out of the air.
A) False
B) True
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