Sources of Water

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Please give me ___ water. (a, an, the, no article)

Q.

2. Do you think you would use the same amount of water in summer and winter?

Q.

What is hydrological cycle?

Q. What processes are not affected by the hydrological cycle?

1. Agricultural irrigation
2. Snow formation
3. Rock distribution
4. Cloud formation

Q. Water ______ from the surface, ______ to form clouds and ______on the ground as rain.

1. evaporates, condenses, precipitates
2. condenses, evaporates, precipitates
3. precipitates, condenses, evaporates
4. evaporates, precipitates, condenses

Q. Pick out the water that naturally occurs on the Earth's surface.

1. Snow
2. Artificial rain
3. Rain
4. Swamp

Q. The 'Total Water Resources Budget' of a particular area is the accounting of all the water that flows into and out of that area.

1. True
2. False

Q. What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered in water?

1. 61%
2. 71%
3. 81%
4. 91%

Q. How many cubic metres of water seeps into the Earth to fill the groundwater level?

1. 13 lakh million cubic metres
2. 8 lakh million cubic metres
3. 3 lakh million cubic metres
4. 2 lakh million cubic metres

Q. What percentage of India's water is found in river bodies?

1. 55%
2. 85%
3. 35%
4. 65%

Q. Select the correct statement(s) regarding groundwater and surface water.

1. Groundwater is usually more contaminated than surface water.
2. Groundwater is always found inside the layer of the Earth, unlike surface water.
3. Groundwater can be found even under a rock.
4. Surface water usually has fewer nutrients than groundwater.

Q. Water ___1___ from the surface, ___2___ to form clouds and ___3___on the ground as rain.

1. evaporates, condenses, precipitates
2. condenses, evaporates, precipitates
3. precipitates, condenses, evaporates
4. evaporates, precipitates, condenses

Q.

________ is the purest form of natural water.

Q. Pick out the form of water that naturally occurs on the Earth's surface.

1. Snow
2. Reservoir
3. Rain
4. Swamp

Q. For which of the following things we require water?

1. Compass
2. Cooking
3. Washing clothes
4. Agriculture
5. Driving
6. Fishing
7. Hydroelectricity
8. Mining