ESS 3.1

A lack of water in an area is called ____.

• water scarcity

• water footprint

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Water on the top the earth can form lakes or rivers, these are termed ____.

• fresh water

• infiltration

• surface water

• groundwater

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Water scarcity that is the result of inadequate natural water resources to supply a region's demand

• economic water scarcity

• physical water scarcity

• water stress

• United Nations

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True or False: Non-renewable resources are only available in limited amounts. Overuse will see them run out.

• True

• False

North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have a hot climate with large land masses, which are deserts. Even though, the map of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula shows large groundwater reservoirs and aquifers. Which of the following answers explains this phenomenon?

• Northern Africa is next to the Mediterranean Sea, which replenishes the underground aquifers. This way, even if the water from the aquifers is being removed faster than rain can replenish them, the amount of groundwater does not decrease.

• Precipitation and humidity are the cause of the aquifers that we see on the map. North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula are in an area where there is a high level of precipitation.

• Humans are constantly using groundwater, which is trapped beneath the ground in aquifers. Due to the hot climate, there isn't much of it available and it does not get replenished, and as a result that causes water stress.

• Aquifers were formed a long time ago by geological processes. The African continent was not always where it is now. In the past it used to be in an area of the world where there was lots of precipitation. That water got trapped beneath the ground between rock layers and moved with the continental plate to where it is now through a geoscience process called the continental drift.

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When water is removed faster by humans than it can be replenished by rain, it leads to....

• Artesian well

• Physical water scarcity

• Economical water scarcity

• Igneous intrusion

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In underground freshwater aquifers, water is trapped...

• in plants.

• in rivers.

• between the soil and rock.

• in microscopical organisms.

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About 90% of the energy used in the US comes from non-renewable energy sources. What happens when they run out?

• We will have to use more renewable energy.

• New non-renewable energy sources will be formed.

• Coal, oil and natural gas use will increase.

• Wind, solar, geothermal energy use will increase.

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Select all the properties of water.

• transparent

• colorless

• incompressible

• solvent

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Select all the states of water.

• solid

• steam

• liquid

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