WATERY EARTH QUIZ 1

Question 1

WATER

Answer 1

A liquid that makes up oceans, rivers, lakes, etc., and falls from the clouds as rain

Question 2

Environment

Answer 2

Everything that surrounds a living thing

Question 3

Essential

Answer 3

Needed for survival

Question 4

Human-made

Answer 4

Produced by humans

Question 5

Natural resources

Answer 5

Things we use that are found in nature, such as water, air, land, forests, oil, and minerals

Question 6

Resource

Answer 6

Things we use that meet our needs and wants. They may be human-made or natural.

Question 7

Renewable Resource:

Answer 7

a resource that grows back or comes back again and again

Question 8

Non-Renewable Resource

Answer 8

a resource that does not grow back or takes a very long time to come back

Question 9

EXAMPLES OF NATURAL RESOURCE

Answer 9

AIR, WATER, TREES, PLANTS, SOIL, SUN, & WIND

Question 10

EXAMPLES OF RENEWABLE RESOURCE

Answer 10

SOIL ,WATER, & TREES/PLANTS

Question 11

EXAMPLES OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE

Answer 11

COAL

Question 12

ice

Answer 12

When water is a solid

Question 13

VAPOR

Answer 13

When water is a gas

Question 14

Humans can’t survive without _____. It is essential for eating, drinking, and cleaning. But most of us
use much more than we actually need. Worlds most important resource.

Answer 14

WATER

Question 15

drinking
eating
caring for pets
animal habitat
playing
keeping clean

Answer 15

water

Question 16

adult body is __% water

children/babies are __% water

Answer 16

60% adult

90% babies/children

Question 17

forms saliva (digestion)

Answer 17

water

Question 18

allows body’s cells to grow, reproduce, & survive

Answer 18

water

Question 19

flushes body waste

Answer 19

water

Question 20

lubricates joints

Answer 20

water

Question 21

regulates body temperature

Answer 21

water

Question 22

converts food for digestion

Answer 22

water

Question 23

delivers oxygen all over the body

Answer 23

water

Question 24

precipitation

Answer 24

Condensation that forms in clouds and falls to the ground as rain, snow, or hail

Question 25

Body of Water

Answer 25

Surface water that has collected in a lake, river, stream, or other area

Question 26

Dissolve

Answer 26

When a solid, such as salt, mixes with and becomes part of a liquid, such as water.

Question 27

Fresh Water

Answer 27

Water with little or no salt dissolved in it. Found in rivers, streams, and most lakes

Question 28

Salt water

Answer 28

Water with salt dissolved in it. Found mainly in oceans and seas

Question 29

Surface Water

Answer 29

Liquid water on the surface of the earth, not underground or in the air.

Question 30

Aquifer

Answer 30

A porous underground layer of rock, sand or soil in which water is stored

Question 31

Gravity

Answer 31

The downward pull on all objects toward the center of the earth

Question 32

Groundwater

Answer 32

Water that is stored beneath the earth’s surface.

Question 33

Percolate

Answer 33

To move slowly down through the earth’s layers

Question 34

Porous

Answer 34

Having many small spaces or holes

Question 35

water cycle

Answer 35

• precipitation
• surface runoff into lakes/soil/ocean
• evaporation
• condensation

Question 36

Earths oceans/seas make up a majority of the ____on our planet.

Answer 36

• salt water

- only 3% of the earth’s water is fresh water

Question 37

an _____acts like a ____

Answer 37

Aquifier…sponge.

When it dries out, its area may shrink. When it fills, it expands