Water Locations
What is the largest body of water on Earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
What is approximately 71%?
This process involves the conversion of water vapor to liquid water.
What is condensation?
This device helps reduce water usage by controlling the flow of water from a faucet.
What is a low-flow faucet aerator?
Water covers approximately what percentage of the Earth's surface?
What is 71%?
Which river is the longest river in the world?
What is the Nile River?
What percentage of Earth's water is freshwater available for human use?
What is about 1%?
The process where plants release water vapor into the atmosphere is called?
What is transpiration?
This practice involves capturing rainwater for later use.
What is rainwater harvesting?
Water can exist in three states. Name them.
What are solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas (water vapor)?
This is the largest freshwater lake in North America.
What is Lake Superior?
About how much of the human body is made up of water?
What is about 60% to 70%, depending on age and gender?
This process involves the movement of water from the Earth's surface into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
Turning off the faucet while brushing teeth is an example of this water-saving action.
What is reducing water waste?
The human brain is about how much percent water?
What is about 75%?
The majority of Earth's liquid freshwater is stored in these natural formations.
What are aquifers?
Question: What percentage of Earth's surface freshwater is found in lakes and rivers?
What is about 0.3%?
What is the process by which water falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
What is precipitation?
This landscaping practice involves using plants native to a region, requiring less water.
What is xeriscaping?
How much of the Earth's water is available for human use?
What is about 1%?
This swamp in Florida is known as the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.
What is the Everglades?
What percentage of Earth's surface freshwater is found in lakes and rivers?
What is about 0.3%?
This term describes the process of water seeping into the ground to become groundwater.
What is infiltration?
This organization sets water efficiency and performance standards.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
What is the deepest known point in the Earth's oceans?
What is the Mariana Trench?