To Your Health
When a body does not have adequate fluids
What is dehydration?
This term refers to the process in which water is purified by being passed through a filter or another medium to remove impurities.
What is filtration?
The five oceans of the world.
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic/Southern?
This is the name of the large storm system that occurs in the tropics and brings heavy rain, wind, and sometimes flooding.
What is a hurricane?
The three forms or states of water.
What are solid, liquid and gas?
This mineral, commonly found in water, is important for bone health and can help prevent tooth decay.
What is fluoride?
The name of pipes used to supply water to homes.
What are water mains?
The five Great Lakes.
What are Erie, Huron, Superior, Michigan, and Ontario?
This is the term for a large, slow-moving body of ice that forms in cold climates and flows across the land.
What is a glacier?
Water is composed of what two elements.
What is Hydrogen and Oxygen
This percentage of the human body is water.
What is approximately 60-75%?
This term refers to the amount of water needed to fill a space or container.
What is capacity?
This large, salty body of water separates the continents of Africa and Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
To make one inch of water it takes this many inches of snow.
What is 10 inches?
This process occurs when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid water, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
A person can live how long without water.
What is approximately 1 week?
An instrument used for measuring quantities of water used.
What is a water meter?
The Nile River flows through this many countries.
What is 9?
This percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water.
What is 71%?
Name the three stages of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
This chemical is added to water to kill bacteria.
What is chlorine?
This word describes the process by which plants release water vapor into the air through tiny openings in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
This is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, located in Russia.
What is Lake Baikal?
A mythological god of the sea.
What is Neptune or Poseidon
Each day, the sun evaporates this much water from the earth.
What is one trillion tons?