Why Study Aquatics?
Fun Facts
Water Facts
water problems
100

What percent of all Americans live within 1 hour from an ocean?

~80%

100

What percent of your body weight is water?

~61%

100
What is the density of water
1.00
100
Some countries don't have access to _____ ______?
Clean water.
200

What percent of the human brain is water?

73%

200

What percent of Earth's water is saltwater?

97%

200

The amount of average time a person can live without water?

About 1 week

200
How many people are killed by water, sanitation and hygiene-related diseases each year?
About 1 million die each year.
300

The amount of water that is on earth today compared to millions of years ago has:

increased

decreased

stayed the same

it is the same amount
300

The average depth of the ocean?

What is 2 miles.

300

How much does water expand when frozen

It expands by 9%

300
Every __ seconds a child dies from a water-related disease?
Every 90 seconds.
400

The number of glasses of water that Americans drink per day?

about 1 billion glasses per day.
400

The percent of water available for drinking?

Less than 1%

400
What are the 2 elements that make up water?
It is made of Hydrogen and Oxygen (H2O)
400

The largest consumer of freshwater globally using about 70% of total freshwater.

Agriculture.

500

The world gets 90% of its fresh water from this place.

Antartica

500

What percent of water is locked in ice glaciers

2%

500
What is waters boiling point?
It is 100C
500
Rainfall made sufficiently by acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes.
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