Water on Earth
Water Conservation Methods
Statistics
Fun Facts
100
The percentage of Earth covered in water
What is 70%?
100
The amount of water (in gallons) a 5 minute shower takes
What is 10 to 25 gallons?
100
97.5% of water on Earth is this
What is salt water?
100
Without water, the Earth would look like this
What is the moon?
200
Water is made out of these elements
What is oxygen and hydrogen?
200
An alternative to excessively washing hands and eliminating bacteria
What is hand sanitizer?
200
This number of states are projecting water shortages between now and 2013
What is 36 states?
200
Water makes up this percentage of our body
What is 70 %?
300
The three forms water can take
What is solid, liquid and gas?
300
A leaky faucet wastes this amount of water (in gallons) a day
What is 100 gallons?
300
The average amount of water (in gallons) used per American per day
What is 100 gallons?
300
An apple, pineapple and corn contain this amount of water percentage Hint: A tomato is about 95% water
What is 80% ?
400
A continuous cycle where water evaporates, travels into the air and becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as precipitation, and then evaporates again?
What is the water cycle?
400
One flush of the toilet uses this amount of water (in gallons)
What is 6 1/2 gallons?
400
This amount of gallons are wasted from dripping faucets each year
What is 1,453 gallons?
400
The three largest oceans on Earth
What are the Pacific Ocean (largest), the Atlantic Ocean (second largest) and the Indian Ocean?
500
The largest freshwater lake in the world
What is Lake Superior in Michigan?
500
The amount of water (in gallons) wasted every minute the faucet is on (i.e: brushing your teeth)
What is 4 gallons?
500
This amount of gallons of water is saved a day by turning off the faucet when brushing your teeth
What is 8 gallons?
500
The world's rainiest place is Mt. Wai'ale'ale, Kauai, Hawaii. During an average year, this many days are "dry days"
What is 15 days?