world’s water trivia
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WORLD’S WATER TRIVIA. Write your answers in your science journal. 1. What percent of the Earth’s water is available for people to use?. A. less than 1% B. 5% C. 10% D. 20%. 2. What percentage of people in the world lack access to safe drinking water?. a.15%; b. 25%; c. 35%; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WORLD’S WATER TRIVIA
Write your answers in your science journal.
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1. What percent of the Earth’s water is availablefor people to use?
• A. less than 1%
• B. 5%
• C. 10%
• D. 20%
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2. What percentage of people in the world lack access to safe drinking
water? • a.15%;
• b. 25%;
• c. 35%;
• d. 45% (or 1.5 billionpeople)
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3. What is the total amount of water (in gallons) consumed per day by the average person in the U.S.?
• a. 55;
• b.150;
• c.750;
• d.1,300
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4. About how many gallons/day are needed to sustain life (including the minimum water needed to produce
the food we consume)?
• a. 5;
• b. 13;
• c. 21;
• d. 33
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5. What percentage of the adult human body is
comprised of water? • a. 10%;
• b. 20%;
• c. 50-65%;
• d. 75-80%
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6. What activity accounts for the highest water use worldwide?
• agriculture,
• industry,
• or domestic?
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7. What percent of his/her income does the average U.S. citizen
spend on drinking water?
• a. 0.5%;
• b. 2%;
• c. 10%;
• d. 25%
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8. What percent of his/her income does the average Honduran living
in the slums of that country’s capital city spend on drinking
water? • a. 0.5%;
• b. 2%;
• c. 10%;
• d. 25%
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11. Approximately how many people in developing countries die
each year from water-related disease?
• a. 100;
• b. 1,000;
• c. 10,000;
• d. 10,000,000
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12. How many gallons of water does it take to produce 1 pound of
corn?
• a. 68;
• b. 168;
• c. 568;
• d. 1268
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13. How much water does it take to produce 1 pound a beef?
• a. 40;
• b. 400;
• c. 4,000;
• d. 40,000
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14. Name 3 sources of fresh water.
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The answers
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But first, a demonstration!
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1. What percent of the Earth’s water is availablefor people to use?
• A. less than 1%; 97% is salty, 3% is fresh (with 2% frozen, and thus less than 1% available)
• B. 5%
• C. 10%
• D. 20%
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2. What percentage of people in the world lack access to safe drinking
water? • a.15%;
• b. 25%;
• c. 35%;
• d. 45% (or 1.5 billionpeople)
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3. What is the total amount of water (in gallons) consumed per day by the average person in the U.S.?
• a. 55;
• b.150;
• c.750;
• d.1,300, did you know it takes 36 gallons
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4. About how many gallons/day are needed to sustain life (including the minimum water needed to produce
the food we consume)?
• a. 5;
• b. 13;
• c. 21;
• d. 33
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5. What percentage of the adult human body is
comprised of water? • a. 10%;
• b. 20%;
• c. 50-65%;
• d. 75-80%
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6. What activity accounts for the highest water use worldwide?
• agriculture, 65-70%
• industry, 20-25%
• or domestic? 13%
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7. What percent of his/her income does the average U.S. citizen
spend on drinking water?
• a. 0.5%;
• b. 2%;
• c. 10%;
• d. 25%
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8. What percent of his/her income does the average Honduran living
in the slums of that country’s capital city spend on drinking
water? • a. 0.5%;
• b. 2%;
• c. 10%;
• d. 25%
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11. Approximately how many people in developing countries die
each year from water-related disease?
• a. 100;
• b. 1,000;
• c. 10,000;
• d. 10,000,000(over 25,000 people every day!)
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12. How many gallons of water does it take to produce 1 pound of
corn?
• a. 68;
• b. 168;
• c. 568;
• d. 1268
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13. How much water does it take to produce 1 pound a beef?
• a. 40;
• b. 400;
• c. 4,000;
• d. 40,000
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14. Name 3 sources of fresh water.
• Melting snow
• Aquifers
• Groundwater
• Rain water
• Icebergs
• Desalinization of salt water
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QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
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