Infiltration is...
The process in which water flows through the soil.
The process by which water runs over the ground into rivers.
The process by which water seeps into the ground.
A situation in which there is simply not enough water for human needs is...
Economic Water Scarcity
Distillation
Sanitation
Physical Water Scarcity
Which disease is transmitted by mosquitoes?
Malaria
Cholera
Diarrhea
Typhoid
True or false? The total surface of water in the earth surface is 71%.
True!
Underground water is accessed by...
Opening the tap
Constructing canals
Drilling Wells
Drip irrigation
Often water must be treated to become _______, safe to drink.
Clarified
Potable
Delicious
Pathogen
Most surface water is stored in...
ground water
glaciers
irrigation
dams
In general, water use worldwide is dominated by
Industrial activities
All these are sectors that use water about equally
Domestic needs
Agricultural use
The removal of salt from ocean water to create more portable water is called...
Water transport
Towing icebergs
Xeriscaping
Desalination
When sewage water is pushed through screens, sand, gravel and coal to remove organisms
filtration
coagulation
bioreactors
chlorination
Water is what type of resource?
renewable
continuous
non-renewable
Plants absorbing groundwater and pumping it into the atmosphere is called
evaporation
sublimation
none of these options
transpiration
The process of changing a liquid into vapor
transpiration
evaporation
excavation
condensation
When water flows along the ground is called
infiltration
evaporation
surface run-off
interception
When a country has a lot of water but cannot afford to extract it, purify it and make it available for the population
water availability
physical water scarcity
economic water scarcity
Name at least 2 ways in which legislations pressure industries regarding water pollution
requesting that they monitor their impact and that they find possible solutions, setting fines
