9.1 Env Sci Quiz

Fresh water is a renewable

• material

• resource

• soil

• plant

Another name for the water cycle is the

• freshwater cycle

• salt water

• flammable cycle

• hydro-logic cycle

About 97.5% of Earth’s water is

• poisoned water

• salt water

• fresh water

• frozen water

__ is water that is relatively pure, with few dissolved salts.

• sugar water

• fresh water

• salt water

• bath water

More than three quarters of the fresh water on Earth is

__; the rest is liquid.

• liquid

• bad

• salt

• frozen

Fresh water is distributed ___ in both time and space.

• ambiguously

• unevenly

• even

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Explain why liquid fresh water is considered a limited resource.

Answer explanation

only small amount earth's waterr is liquid and fresh. limited resource

Explain why the available amount of water per person differs between countries.

Answer explanation

some countries have many people with less water, some less people and more water. It also changes with amount available due to

different seasons

Water that flows over land and has not been absorbed into the ground is called

• ocean water

• runoff

• groundwater

• a tributary

All of the land area that supplies water to a particular river system is called a

• glacier

• river

• watershed

• tributary