Water Resources and Water Use

Aquifers can run low or run out of water if the water is pumped out faster than it can be replenished.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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In some areas of the world, water costs more than oil because it is so scarce.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Using graywater DECREASES the amount of water that must be treated in a wastewater treatment center.

• True

• False

What type of water makes up 1% of the total water on Earth?

• groundwater

• frozen, freshwater

• liquid, freshwater

• oceans, marine water

Graywater is used widely in drought areas like Australia.

• True

• False

Purification of salt water or brackish (slightly salty) water by removal of dissolved salts

• distillation

• desalination

• reverse osmosis

• microfiltration

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an aquifer?

• An underground area of rock and soil that is soaked with water.

• A freshwater source that is frozen year round.

• A river that runs through a mountain.

• An open area where glaciers melt.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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How much of Earth’s water is fresh water?

• 1 percent

• 3 percent

• 77 percent

• 97 percent

A rock’s ability to allow the flow of water through it is called

• permeability

• porosity

• recharge

• distribution

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Match the following

• watershed

• area of Earth’s surface where water percolates

  down into the aquifer

• Aquifer

• water stored under Earth’s surface

• river system

• area of land drained by a river

• recharge zone

• flowing network of surface water

• groundwater

• underground formation containing groundwater

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1