Test- Human Activity and Water

What is the scientific name for the water cycle?

• The Vapor Cycle

• The Hydrologic Cycle

• The Water Table

• The H two O cycle

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After a car accident firefighters always clean up oil and fuel spills. What are they trying to prevent?

• Contaminants from entering ponds and lakes through runoff water

• Animals drinking the fuel and oil

• People stealing the fuel

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What do we call the water that is flowing towards a river?

• Runoff

• Spilloff

• Fast Hydro Speed

• Flowing water

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Humans depend on the ocean for all of the following except?

• Food

• Transportation

• Trash Storage

• Jobs

Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

The great pacific garbage patch collects trash from our oceans currents from around the world.

• Positive Human Impact on Ocean Systems

• Negative Human Impacts on Ocean Systems

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Recycling trash helps prevent plastic and other unwanted trash from entering our ocean systems.

• Positive Human Impact on Ocean Systems

• Negative Human Impacts on Ocean Systems

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Which of the following is NOT a way to help our oceans?

• Using reusable bags when grocery shopping

• Conserving water

• Riding a bike instead of driving a car

• Littering

What is a watershed?

• An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
• Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.
• Water that collects on the surface of the ground.
• Water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.

What is an aquifer?

• A body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
• The upper surface of the zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractures of the ground are saturated with water.
• Area that contains both air and water
• Land consisting of marshes or swamps

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A region of land where all the water drains into a single river, lake, or other body of water.

• Watershed

• Glacier

• Surface Water

• Groundwater

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