Water Use, Pollution, and Conservation

Most of the Earth's freshwater is found where?

• liquid water

• solid ice

• the ocean

• water vapor in the sky

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Which of the following is NOT a way water is used in the industry?

• manufacturing products

• taking a shower

• generating power

• disposal of waste products

How have many uninhabitable areas worldwide become habitable for humans?

• increased rainfall in that area

• water diversion to that area

• more people moved there

• people order their water online

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Which of the following is NOT an example of nonpoint source pollution?

• runoff from agricultural feedlots

• water bottle in the ocean

• pathogens

• pipe dumping factory waste into a nearby river

Most pollutants in the ocean come from where?

• activities on land

• China

• rainfall in the Tropical Rainforest

• Mississippi Watershed

What is an inexpensive solution to providing everyone on Earth with clean freshwater?

• water bottles

• desalination

• water conservation

• water diversion

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Why are some types of detergents banned?

• the algae will die from the excess nutrients in the water

• excess phosphates causes the algae to bloom more, suffocating the fish

• the fish are immune to the detergent, allowing them to live

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Biomagnification is evidence of what moving up the food chain?

• water pollution

• pathogens

• matter

• energy

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Both artificial eutrophication and thermal pollution cause what harm to the environment?

• mutant fish that can take over the world

• too many fish sticks

• decrease in algae growth

• decrease in available oxygen, causing the fish to die

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is the method of providing plants with water other than preceipitation?

• irrigation

• evaporation

• magic

• pollution

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