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Water Pollution

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  • How can water pollution affect people?
    Water pollution can make people very sick or cause people to die.
  • ____________ and ___________ get into groundwater or runoff into streams.
    Pesticides and fertilizers
    Insects and corn
    Fertilizers and trash
    Leaves and plants
  • What are two things people do that cause water pollution?
    littering, allowing pesticides and fertilizer in water, factories, sewage
  • Water pollution can negatively impact the water cycle.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • Trash from people _______________ ends up in lakes and rivers.
    fertilizer
    food
    sewage
    trash
  • Where does most water pollution come from?
    Human activity
  • What are the four parts of the water cycle?
    evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection
  • _____________ can cause animals to die because they cannot move.
    Water
    Factories
    Chemicals
    Oil spills
  • Some people in the world do not have clean drinking water.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • Oil spills in the oceans do not harm animals.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • How can water pollution be bad for fish?
    Sometimes there is not enough oxygen in the water for the fish to survive.
  • What is water pollution?
    when waste, chemicals, or other particles cause a body of water to be harmful to fish and animals
  • ______________ sometimes release waste water and chemicals.
    Houses
    Factories
    Farms
    Hospitals
  • Water pollution can sometimes affect the food chain.
    FALSE
    TRUE
  • How is plastic that gets into oceans, lakes, and rivers dangerous to animals?
    The plastic is sometimes eaten by animals and cannot be digested.