Human Impact on Water Resources

1) Why is it important to clean, conserve, and protect water?

• Water is expensive.

• Water is a living thing.

• Water can be frozen.

• Water is a limited resource.

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Which will most likely happen if lake water becomes polluted by humans?

• Animals in the lake will die.

• There will be more fish in the lake.

• The pollution will not hurt the plants or animals in the water.

• It will change the soil around the lake into pebbles.

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Victoria went to a stream near her home and recorded these observations: the water temperature was 90 degrees, had very few insects, the water had a very strong odor. What can you conclude from her observations?

• It is clean.

• It is suitable to drink.

• It is polluted.

• It has lots of fish.

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Which of the following is one way humans pollute the hydrosphere?

• fishing

• farming and causing soil runoff

• going on a paddle boat

• cleaning up an oil spill

A student's model of an area near a city depicts many activities that affect the quality of the water in the area. How does the agricultural activity most likely affect the surface water of the area?

• Excess crop fertilizer is carried off by runoff into the river, causing excess growth of water plants.

• Excess crop materials accumulates on the riverbanks slowing the movement of the river water.

• Crops reduce erosion, increasing the amount soil entering the river.

• Crops absorb pure water from the soil, causing the remaining water to contain more salt.

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Water pollution is normally a result of natural processes.

• true - nothing can be done about the increase in pollution

• false - human activity greatly impacts the quality of water negatively

• true - most pollution is caused by marine life

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How do the industrial, agricultural, and residential activities of humans most likely affect the groundwater in the area?

• The activities prevent most of the water from evaporating into the atmosphere.

• Pollutants from the activities percolate through the soil and enter the water table.

• The activities replace the groundwater used.

• All of the above

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The introduction of chemical, physical or biological agents into the water is

• Water Pollution

• Potable Water

• Desalination

• Population

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An artificial or man made lake used to store water for human usage is a?

• water table

• water bed

• aquifer

• reservoir

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Eutrophication or Algal Bloom is caused by...

• fossil fuel burning in power plants.

• automobiles burning fossil fuels.

• over fertilizing farm fields.

• limestone rocks in a body of water.

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