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Where on the World?! Answer Key

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Numbers!
#1 97% of the water in the world is found here. What is the ocean?
#2 This fraction represents how much water covers our planet. What is 2/3?
#3 Only 3% of the water in the world is this. What is freshwater?
#4 About 2% of the planet's water is found here. What is glaciers? or What is underground?
#5 Less than 1% of the water on surface is used for this. What is usable freshwater? (also acceptable is drinking water, water for crops, bathing water, or anything the teacher accepts.)
The Water Cycle
#1 Water is found in these three states of matter. What is solid, liquid, and gas?
#2 The sphere that water is from. What is the hydrosphere?
#3 The water cycle is the process by which water is circulated throughout the atmosphere and _____________. What is the Earth?
#4 The conversion of gas to a liquid is ________________. What is condensation?
#5 Water released from the clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. What is precipitation?
Where's the H2O?
#1 The biome that has the most water. What is the rainforest?
#2 The biome that has the least water. What is a desert?
#3 It supplies water for Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and California. What is the Colorado River?
#4 It holds frozen freshwater. What are glaciers?
#5 It holds, filters, and moves ground water through it. What is an aquifer?
I'm thirsty!
#1 This is overusing water. What is overharvesting?
#2 They reduce fresh water. What are dams?
#3 Animals like vaquitas are affected by less freshwater and have to do this or they will become extinct. What is adapt?
#4 This can harm humans, plants, and animals. What is pollution?
#5 Something humans can't do if we don't have enough fresh water. What is grow crops? or What is run toilets? or What is make things? or What is water lawns? or What is wash cars? or... Anything that your teacher finds acceptable.
Potpourri
#1 Water has been a major source of controversy among people in different parts of the world for thousands of years. In the US, we handle controversy through this. What are the courts?
#2 Water that does not contain much salt. What is freshwater?
#3 Surface freshwater is found here. What is lakes, rivers, ponds, or streams?
#4 This is how we get water out of an aquifer. What is a water pump?
#5 Water that contains much salt. What is salt water?
Final Question
The reason the Colorado River has 4 trillion less liters than in 1920. What is people overharvest the Colorado River? or What is people are wasting water?