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Why Study Aquatics?
Fun Facts
Water Facts
water problems
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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.
What is Acid Rain