Grades K-2 Water Pollution
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1. What is another name for
poop?
3. A baby makes about 1
ounce of pee each day. How
many ounces would it make in
a week?
5. What is ok to flush down a
toilet?
7. How do people who live in
cities usually treat their
wastewater?
A. feces
B. urine
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1. What is the most common
kind of litter, by number, found
in waterways?
A. cigarette butts
B. aluminum cans
C. plastic bottles
A. 7 ounces
B. 3 ounces
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3. What causes stormwater
runoff to increase?
A. an impervious surface
B. a pervious surface
C. tree roots
CORRECT: A, A
A. poop, pee and toilet paper
B. small toys
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5. What is a shallow
depression with water-loving
vegetation where rainwater can
collect and soak into the soil
instead of running off?
A. a rain garden
B. an irrigated garden
C. a berm
CORRECT: A, A
A. at a wastewater treatment
plant
B. at a drinking water plant
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7. What is a hole dug by
people that reaches from the
surface to a source of ground
water?
A. a well
B. a spring
C. a watershed
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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2. How do people go to the
bathroom these days?
4. An adult makes about 1/2 of
poop a day. How much poop
will there be in six days?
6. How much water does it take
to flush a toilet?
8. What is in the tank on the
back of a toilet?
A. between 1 and 3 gallons
B. less than a gallon
A. water just like the water out
of a faucet
B. air from a tank on the roof
A. into a toilet
B. into a chamber pot
A. 3 lbs
B. 6 lbs
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2. What is a surface made of
material that allows water to
soak into the ground like a
sponge called?
4. What does stormwater from
a farm carry with it into
streams?
A. pervious
B. impervious
C. asphalt
A. soil and fertilizer
B. litter and chemicals
C. pet waste
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
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6. What is water in lakes,
rivers, ponds and seas on the
surface of the earth?
A. surface water
B. an undergound stream
C. ground water
CORRECT: A, A
8. What is a place in a stream
that is deep enough to hold
water for fish even in the dry
season?
A. a stream pool
B. a riffle
C. the bank
CORRECT: A, A
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9. What is the most important
reason to change water in a
fish tank?
11. Which of these stores rain
water collected from the roof?
13. How did the pioneers go to
the bathroom?
15. What is water that goes
down toilets and drains called?
A. a rain barrel
B. a garden
A. into a chamber pot
B. into a litter box
A. wastewater or sewage
B. runoff
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11. Who educates communities
and the public about
stormwater?
13. What is rain that falls on
the land and flows over the
surface to the nearest stream?
15. Which of these can help
reduce the flow of stormwater
into a stream?
A. storm water educators
B. stream ecologists
C. street cleaners
A. infiltration
B. stormwater runoff
C. a flood
A. a ditch
B. plants on the bank
C. a fence on the bank
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, B
CORRECT: A, B
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10. If rain fell on the side of a
hill, which way would it go?
12. What is another name for
pee?
16. What is ok to let go down a
sink drain?
A. downhill
B. uphill
A. urine
B. feces
14. An adult makes about half
a gallon of pee each day. How
many days would it take for an
adult to make a gallon of pee?
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10. In a toilet, what holds the
waste until it is flushed down
the toilet?
12. Which party favor, if it gets
away, can be mistaken for food
by sea turtles?
A. the bowl
B. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
C. the float
A. beads
B. helium balloons
C. party hats
A. so the fish’s waste doesn't
poison it
B. so the water doesn't smell
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9. Which stream animals are
indicators of poor water
quality?
A. black fly larvae
B. riffle beetles
C. May fly larvae
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, B
A. 2 days
B. 4 days
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14. What is one effect of
increased stormwater on
streams?
A. it makes more pools
B. it eliminates pools and riffles
C. it makes a stream curvier
CORRECT: A, A
A. soap, water and dirt
B. cooking oil
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16. Where does a city's
wastewater get cleaned
before it is released into a
river?
A. a giant holding pond or tank
B. a wastewater treatment
plant
C. a storm water treatment
plant
CORRECT: A, B
CORRECT: A, B
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17. Where does water go after
it is flushed down the toilet?
19. What are the leftover
remains of the water, milk and
juice we drink called?
21. Which of these places
would let water soak into the
ground?
23. What do the leftover
remains of the food we eat
become?
A. poop
B. pee
A. a parking lot
B. a garden
A. pee
B. poop
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19. What is the place in a
stream that is so shallow that
water tumbles over rocks and
picks up oxygen?
21. In a toilet, what keeps the
water from over-filling the tank?
23. What is a surface made of
material that sheds water like a
rain coat called?
A. out into the street
B. into an underground pipe
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17. What is an underground
layer of permeable rock,
gravel, sand or soil where
ground water collects?
A. a lake
B. an aquifer
C. an cave stream
A. the bank
B. a riffle
C. a stream pool
CORRECT: B, B
A. the tank
B. the float
C. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
A. pervious
B. gravel
C. impervious
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, B
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18. How do people who live out
in the country usually treat their
wastewater?
20. What is an underground
pipe that carries stormwater?
22. Who runs a wastewater
treatment plant?
24. How do wild go to to the
bathroom?
A. a sanitary sewer
B. a storm sewer
A. plumbers
B. wastewater engineers
A. into a litter box
B. onto the soil
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20. In a toilet, what keeps a
small amount of water in the
bowl to stop smelly gases from
getting into the bathroom?
22. Who cleans streets in cities
to keep litter from being
washed into streams?
24. What is the soil that water
from storms or flooding washes
into the nearest stream?
A. landscape architects
B. street cleaners
C. storm water educators
A. watershed
B. stormwater runoff
C. sediment
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, C
A. at a wastewater treatment
plant
B. with septic systems
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18. What is a place where
water flows naturally from the
groundwater to the surface?
A. a watershed
B. a spring
C. a well
A. the bowl
B. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
C. the tank
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
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25. A baby makes about 1
ounce of poop each day. How
many ounces would it make in
a week?
27. Why does wastewater need
to be cleaned?
29. How does a toilet move
pee and poop into the
wastewater pipe?
31. Where do stormwater pipes
usually lead?
A. 3 ounces
B. 7 ounces
A. so it can be used for
growing food
B. so it won't make people sick
when it is put in a river
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25. What does stormwater from
a city carry with it into streams?
27. What is the water stored in
aquifers or between soil
particles below the surface of
the earth?
A. it uses air to flush them into
the pipe
B. it uses water to flush them
into the pipe
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A. soil and fertilizer
B. manure
C. litter and chemicals
CORRECT: B, C
A. surface water
B. well water
C. ground water
29. What is an area of land
whose rainwater and snowmelt
drain to a single stream or
river?
A. a lake
B. a river
C. a watershed
A. to a wastewater treatment
plant
B. to the nearest stream
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31. In a toilet, what holds the
water used to flush the waste
down the pipes?
A. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
B. the bowl
C. the tank
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
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26. What is an underground
pipe that carries wastewater?
28. What happens to animal
poop in the wild?
30. What is the rain that runs
off the ground into a stream
called?
32. Which of these places
would let rain water run into a
storm drain?
A. a stormwater sewer
B. a sanitary sewer
A. it dries into small rocks
B. it is eaten by insects, fungi
and bacteria
A. wastewater
B. stormwater
A. a garden
B. a parking lot
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28. How does water get into an
aquifer?
30. Which stream animals are
indicators of good water
quality?
32. Who studies the health of
streams?
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26. Where does litter or pet
waste left on streets end up if
not picked up?
A. in the trash
B. at a landfill
C. in the nearest body of water
CORRECT: B, C
A. it is formed through volcanic
activity
B. it is pumped in from a
nearby water body
C. it seeps in from the surface
A. leeches
B. black fly larvae
C. May fly larvae
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
CORRECT: B, C
A. landscape architects
B. storm water educators
C. stream ecologists
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33. Who fits pipes for water to
flow in?
A. wastewater engineers
B. plumbers
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33. Who knows how to bulid
rain gardens?
A. street cleaners
B. stream ecologists
C. landscape architects
CORRECT: B, C
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