Water Scarcity: A Global Issue

How can the contamination of water be considered pollution?

• if it is harmful to humans and plants

• if it is harmful to humans, plants, and animals

• if pollutants are being put into the air by evaporation

• if pollutants are being consumed by human beings

What is water scarcity?

• when the water gets too scared to come down from the clouds

• when water is really easy to find

• when water is abundant in an area so people have enough clean water to drink

• when water is limited in an area so people do not have enough clean water to drink

Why doesn't Mexico City have clean drinking water today? Where can this information be found?

• an earthquake in 1985, paragraph 6

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company, paragraph 6

• an earthquake in 1995, paragraph 5

• the burning of fossil fuels, paragraph 5

What are the two different types of water scarcity?

• chemical water scarcity and economic water scarcity

• physical water scarcity and economic water scarcity

• physical water scarcity and money water scarcity

• material water scarcity and money water scarcity

Access to clean water can mean the difference between...

• showers and baths

• life and death

• eating and starving

• Earth and Mars

What is the ratio of people that do not have clean water to drink? What paragraph is this information in?

• 1 in 100, paragraph 2

• 1 in 10, paragraph 3

• 1 in 1,000, paragraph 1

• 1 in 10, paragraph 2

What do scientists predict will cause more droughts? Where can this text evidence be found?

• how people react to current droughts, paragraph 4

• current human behavior like pollution and deforestation, paragraph 5

• the same human activities that will lead to global climate change, paragraph 4

• glaciers melting and less rainfall, paragraph 5

What two states are currently experiencing extreme drought?

• Florida and Georgia

• Florida and Oklahoma

• Africa and Australia

• Georgia and Oklahoma

What is a crop?

• a type of plant that is grown for food, especially grain, vegetables, and fruit

• a narrow strip of territory projecting from the main territory of a state

• a type of seed that is grown for flowering

• a type of plant that is grown for its features

Where was the longest drought ever recorded?

• the panhandle of Oklahoma

• the Middle East

• northern Africa

• Atacama Desert