Water Resources

Question 1

What is the 0.65% of our water?

Answer 1

groundwater, lakes, rivers, etc.

Question 2

How many percent of water is in the ocean?

Answer 2

97%

Question 3

How many percent of water are in glaciers?

Answer 3

2.15%

Question 4

includes organic, mic-organisms, nutrients, suspended solids and sediments, inorganic pollutants, thermal pollution and radioactive pollutants

Answer 4

Water Pollutants

Question 5

spaces filled with water

Answer 5

Zone of Saturation

Question 6

Top of groundwater zone

Answer 6

water table

Question 7

falls in dry weather, or when we remove groundwater faster than natura can replenish it, and it rises in wet weather

Answer 7

water table

Question 8

underground caverns and porous layers of sand, gravel, or bedrock through which groundwater flows

Answer 8

Aquifers

Question 9

freshwater from precipitation and snowmelt that flows across the earth’s land surface into rivers, lakes, estuaries, and the ocean

Answer 9

Surface Water

Question 10

precipitation that does not infiltrate the ground or return to the atmosphere by evaporation

Answer 10

surface runoff

Question 11

land from which surface water drains into a particular river, lake, or other body of water

Answer 11

watershed or drainage basin