Water on the Daily
What is the Pacific Ocean? . Covering approximately 59 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth.
This is the process to create new items from old and used materials. This helps in reducing energy and potentially useful materials from being wasted.
What is recycling? Recycling is a part of waste disposal hierarchy – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
What is 1 day? The sloth is a very slow moving animal. It often takes one day to climb up and down a tree. Try again, there is less than five layers in a Rain forest.
What is Four? The layers of a rainforest, from the highest to the lowest, are:
- Emergent layer (the tops of the highest trees)
- Canopy layer (the branches and leaves of most of the rainforest trees; where most of the rainforest’s species are found)
- Understory layer (small trees and shrubs able to live in low-light conditions)
- Forest Floor layer (the dark, damp ground layer, where the rainforest’s largest animals are found)
What is the bathroom? This is the spot where you can conserve tons of water by taking shorter showers, fixing leaking taps and turning the water off when you brush your teeth. To flush a toilet we use 7.5 to 26.5 litres (2 to 7 gallons) of water. In a five-minute shower we use 95 to 190 litres (25 to 50 gallons) of water. To brush your teeth you use 7.5 litres (2 gallons) of water.
What are greenhouse gases? The major greenhouse gases (GHG’s) solely responsible for greenhouse effect are Carbon dioxide, Ozone, Methane and Water vapor.
What is the third? the only world known to support an atmosphere with free oxygen, oceans of liquid water on the surface and — the big one — life.
What is Lake Superior? Lake Superior’s the lakehead of the five Great Lakes of North America. This is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, and the third largest by volume. Nothing in North America’s larger by either measure.
What is the Mariana Trench? The deepest point on the ocean floor is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) below sea level in the Mariana Trench.
What is deforestation? Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest. Rain forests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
What is Oxygen and Hydrogen? 2 Hydrogen atoms and an Oxygen atom, that are bond together due to electrical charges. By this charge a water molecule is created.
What is Germany? (According to Forbes magazine). 65 percent of its waste is being recycled. This is nearly double what the United States has. Number two on the list is South Korea with 59 percent. And a tie for third, Austria and Slovenia with 58 percent. Canada is said to only recycle 24 percent of their waste.
What is Pangea? Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago.
The llama is a domesticated camelid that is native to this continent.
What is 37 Liters? The brain is 75% water, bones 25%, and blood 83%.
What is aluminum cans? Aluminum cans can be recycled over and over again. Recycling your soda and juice cans takes 95 percent less energy than creating new aluminum cans. The energy expended to manufacture one new can could produce 20 recycled cans.
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What is the Ozone layer? The ozone layer is mainly found in the lower portion of the stratosphere, from approximately 20 to 30 kilometers above Earth, although its thickness varies seasonally and geographically.