Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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? Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution Grades K-2 Water Pollution 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 Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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? Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 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 Grades K-2 Water Pollution 33. Who fits pipes for water to flow in? A. wastewater engineers B. plumbers Grades 3-5 Water Pollution 33. Who knows how to bulid rain gardens? A. street cleaners B. stream ecologists C. landscape architects CORRECT: B, C Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST Water Pollution Grades K-5 EARTH QUEST