Water Conservation: Raising Your Water IQ

1. H20pardy This game follows the ‘Raising Your Water IQ’ conservation curriculum. *Navigation tip: Move your mouse, make sure you see the hand (not the arrow) and click to go to the next slide, or back to the topic board. **For Final H20pardy, click a topic name. Click to begin. Game prepared by Whitney Milberger Whitney.Milberger@twdb.state.tx.us May 2008

2. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

3. Our House Waterology Water Cycle All Around Us? Anything Goes 100 Point 100 Point 100 Point 100 Point 100 Point 200 Points 200 Points 200 Points 200 Points 200 Points 300 Points 300 Points 300 Points 300 Points 300 Points 400 Points 400 Points 400 Points 400 Points 400 Points 500 Points 500 Points 500 Points 500 Points 500 Points

4. We use the most water in this room.

5. What is the bathroom?

6. You can conserve water by using a trash can in the restroom instead of this.

7. What is the toilet?

8. A bath uses 3 times as much water than this.

9. What is a 5 minute shower?

10. This device uses 1.2-1.6 gallons of water each time.

11. What is a high efficiency toilet?

12. You can save 3 ½ gallons of water by turning the faucet off every time you do this!

13. What is brushing your teeth?

14. An underground layer of rock and sand that contains water.

15. What is an aquifer?

16. Pollution from a single identifiable source.

17. What is point source pollution?

18. The ability of a material to allow the passage of a liquid, such as water through rocks.

19. What is permeability?

20. A series of processes that physically removes particles from water.

21. What is filtration?

22. The region of land whose water drains into a river, lake, sea, or ocean.

23. What is a watershed?

24. The excess water that flows across the land picking up pollutants on its way to streams and rivers.

25. What is run off?

26. The process of a gas or vapor changing to a liquid form.

27. What is condensation?

28. The process by which plants lose water.

29. What is transpiration?

30. The change in state of water from a liquid to a gas.

31. What is evaporation?

32. Water naturally stored below the surface of the earth, supplying wells and springs.

33. What is groundwater?

34. We should use this instead of a water hose to clean our porches.

35. What is a broom?

36. An extended period without rain.

37. What is a drought?

38. The pollution that cannot be traced to a single, identifiable source.

39. What is non-point source pollution?

40. The movement of water from the atmosphere to the earth and back through precipitation, run off, infiltration, percolation, storage, evaporation, and transpiration.

41. What is the hydrologic cycle?

42. A community of interdependent organisms living together in an environment.

43. What is an ecosystem?

44. The wearing down or washing away of the soil and land surface.

45. What is erosion?

46. The removal of dissolved salts from seawater.

47. What is desalination?

48. The care, preservation, protection, and wise use of natural resources.

49. What is conservation?

50. To remove all contaminants from a substance.