Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
1. What is the most common
kind of litter, by number, found
in waterways?
3. What causes stormwater
runoff to increase?
5. What is a shallow
depression with water-loving
vegetation where rainwater can
collect and soak into the soil
instead of running off?
7. What is a hole dug by
people that reaches from the
surface to a source of ground
water?
A. cigarette butts
B. aluminum cans
C. plastic bottles
A. an impervious surface
B. a pervious surface
C. tree roots
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
1. Which of these helps stop
soil and fertilizer from running
off a farm field into a stream?
A. planting a grass buffer
B. fencing along the stream
C. plowing to the edge of a
stream
3. What are the solids that are
denser than wastewater, so
that they sink to the bottom,
called?
A. sludge
B. scum
C. rocks
A. a rain garden
B. an irrigated garden
C. a berm
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
5. What are soil or bits of rock
suspended in water?
A. sediment
B. organic solids
C. scum
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. a well
B. a spring
C. a watershed
CORRECT: A, A
7. What happens in a septic
system's drain field?
A. bacteria in the soil break
down the waste
B. sunlight breaks down the
waste
C. scum and sludge are
separated
CORRECT: A, A
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
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?
6. What is water in lakes,
rivers, ponds and seas on the
surface of the earth?
8. What place in a stream is
deep enough to hold water for
fish even in the dry season?
A. soil and fertilizer
B. litter and chemicals
C. pet waste
A. surface water
B. an undergound stream
C. ground water
A. a stream pool
B. a riffle
C. the bank
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
4. What is waste water or
storm water that flows overland
into a body of water?
6. What happens to sludge in a
septic tank?
8. What are chemicals that
mimic natural hormones and
affect development and
reproduction in living
organisms?
A. pervious
B. impervious
C. asphalt
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
2. The first step in cleaning
wastewater at a treatment plant
is to remove large solids. What
is this step called?
A. screening
B. clarification
C. aeration
CORRECT: A, A
A. non-point source water
pollution
B. point source water pollution
C. industrial waste
A. it accumulates on the
bottom
B. it floats on top of the
wastewater
C. it flows into the drainfield
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
A. endocrine disruptors
B. antiobiotics
C. road salt
CORRECT: A, A
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
9. Which stream animals are
indicators of poor water
quality?
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. black fly larvae
B. riffle beetles
C. May fly larvae
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
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
9. What is acid rain?
11. Who creates methods of
cleaning industrial waste
water?
13. What is the wastewater
step that separates scum and
sludge from the liquid fraction
called?
15. What is waste water that
flows from a pipe into a body of
water?
A. precipitation that has a pH
lower than 5.7
B. precipitation that has a pH
lower than 7.0
C. precipitation that has a pH
higher than 7.0
A. industrial engineers
B. microbiologists
C. water conservationists
A. aeration
B. clarification
C. screening
A. ground water
B. point source water pollution
C. non-point source water
pollution
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
12. Which party favor, if it gets
away, can be mistaken for food
by sea turtles?
14. What is one effect of
increased stormwater on
streams?
16. Where does a city's
wastewater get cleaned?
A. beads
B. helium balloons
C. party hats
A. it makes more pools
B. it eliminates pools and riffles
C. it makes a stream curvier
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
12. Which of these helps keep
waste from cows out of a
stream?
14. The third step in cleaning
wastewater at a treatment plant
is to mix the liquid fraction with
air to help bacteria break down
the small solids. What is this
step called?
CORRECT: A, A
CORRECT: A, A
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
10. In a toilet, what holds the
waste until it is flushed down
the toilet?
A. the bowl
B. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
C. the float
A. in a giant holding pond
B. at a wastewater treatment
plant
C. at a storm water treatment
plant
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
10. Which characteristic or
condition of the environment
affects how seriously acid rain
affects a lake?
A. the kind of bedrock
B. the amount of nutrients
C. the plants on the shoreline
A. using a culvert to carry the
waste away
B. fencing along the stream
C. limiting cows to one spot in
a stream
16. How does sediment affect
the health of plants or animals
in a lake or stream?
A. screening
B. aeration
C. clarification
A. it clogs plankton gills
B. it blocks light and reduces
algal photosynthesis
C. it settles around plant roots
and stabilizes them
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: A, A
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
17. What is an underground
layer of permeable rock,
gravel, sand or sil where
ground water collects?
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. a lake
B. an aquifer
C. an cave stream
A. the bank
B. a riffle
C. a stream pool
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
17. What happens to scum in a
septic tank?
19. Which of these is a
documented effect of an
endocrine disruptor?
A. it flows into the drainfield
B. it floats on top of the
wastewater
C. it accumulates on the
bottom
A. delayed maturation of
human females
B. feminization of male frogs
C. masculinization of female
birds
A. the tank
B. the float
C. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
A. pervious
B. gravel
C. impervious
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
21. Who studies the movement
of water above and below
ground?
23. What is the best way to
decide how much fertilizer to
apply to a crop field?
A. chemical engineers
B. hydrologists
C. water conservationists
A. use the same amount as the
previous year
B. find out how much everyone
else is using this year
C. do a soil test
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: B, B
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
18. What is a place where
water flows naturally from the
groundwater to the surface?
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
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
22. Who monitors water for
harmful bacteria and other
pathogens?
24. What are the solids, like
fats, grease and oils, that float
on the top of wastewater
called?
A. a watershed
B. a spring
C. a well
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
18. What waste treatment
system works by holding feces
and urine in a pit or tank until it
can be removed for further
treatment?
A. the bowl
B. the upside-down U pipe
under the bowl
C. the tank
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
20. What causes acid rain?
A. a lagoon
B. a pit toilet or latrine
C. a septic system
A. CFCs in the atmosphere
B. sulfur and nitrogen
compounds in the atmosphere
C. carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: B, B
A. industrial engineers
B. microbiologists
C. hydrologists
A. sludge
B. rocks
C. scum
CORRECT: B, B
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
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?
29. What is an area of land
whose rainwater and snowmelt
drain to a single stream or
river?
31. Who studies the health of
streams?
A. surface water
B. well water
C. ground water
A. a lake
B. a river
C. a watershed
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
27. What is an underground
tank used to treat household
wastewater in places where
there is no centralized
treatment?
29. How do factories dispose of
their wastewater?
A. soil and fertilizer
B. manure
C. litter and chemicals
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
25. The last step in cleaning
wastewater at a treament plant
is to disinfect the water. What
is this step called?
A. clarification
B. screening
C. chlorination
CORRECT: C, C
A. a holding tank
B. a settling pond
C. a septic tank
A. they pipe it to a river
B. they store it in lagoons until
the water evaporates
C. they pretreat it and send it to
a wastewater treatment plant
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
Grades 3-5 Water Pollution
26. Where does litter or pet
waste left on streets end up if
not picked up?
28. How does water get into an
aquifer?
30. Which stream animals are
indicators of good water
quality?
A. in the trash
B. at a landfill
C. in the nearest body of water
CORRECT: C
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
26. What is an area of land
whose rainwater and snowmelt
drain into a single stream or
river?
A. a river
B. a lake
C. a watershed
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
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
28. What happens to the liquid
part of wastewater in a septic
tank?
A. it accumulates on the
bottom
B. it floats on top of the
wastewater
C. it flows into the drainfield
CORRECT: C, C
CORRECT: C, C
30. Who advises individuals
and governments about water
quality and quantity
A. industrial engineers
B. hydrologists
C. water conservationists
CORRECT: C, C
A. landscape architects
B. storm water educators
C. stream ecologists
Grades 6-8 Water Pollution
31. What is an effect of acid
rain?
A. algal growth is higher
B. zooplankton populations
increase
C. fish eggs may not hatch
CORRECT: C, C
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