This is an interactive quiz on Water: A Precious Resource.
It includes topics such as surface water, water table, depletion of water resources.
Seas and oceans are full of water on earth. However, a very small percentage of water present on earth is available for us. This percentage is roughly:
A man digging the ground near a water body found that the soil was moist. As he kept digging deeper and deeper he reached a level, where all the spaces between particles of soil and gaps between rocks where filled with water. The upper limit of this layer is called:
Which of the following is a way to use water economically?
Which of the following are not the liquid forms of water? Choose the correct combinations:
Snow, water vapour, ice
Snow and lake water
Lake water and river water
Water vapour
One of these is not a source of surface water:
Rain
River
Lake
Spring
What from this source cannot be consumed ?
Lake
Rain
River
Sea
The ground water bearing layer of the earth which is below the water table is:
Water table
Sea level
Aquifer
None of these
The cause of depletion of water table is:
Increasing industries
Water table
Rain water
None of these
To minimise the wastage of water is:
Wash cloth with machine
Wash the floor everyday.
Turn off taps while brushing
None of these
Which year was observed as International Year of Fresh Water?
Which of the following does not show water shortage?
The amount of water recommended by the United Nations for drinking, washing, cooking and maintaining proper hygiene per person per day is a minimum of
Water cycle does not involve which of the following?
On which day the world water day is celebrated?
“Every Drop Counts” is a slogan related to:
Which of the following inhibits the seepage of rainwater into ground?
A pukka floor
Playground
Grass lawn
Forest land
The hump of the camel is a reservoir of
Fatty tissue
Water
Milk
All of the above
________allows the water to seep in easily ( )
Depletion of water table is due to
Water exists in ( )