Test Your Knowledge!!!!

Take this test and see
how much you know about water.

1. What percentage of the Earth
is covered by water?

2. What percentage of the Earth's water
is readily available for humans to use?

3. How much water is contained
in the human body?

4. Which contains more water
as a percentage of body weight,
a woman's or a man's body?

5. Why do male and female bodies
tend to have different amounts of water?

6. How much water does the human body
lose in a typical day?

7. Why is water especially good
for people on a diet?

8. What is the largest use of water...
indoors? outdoors?

9. What percentage of treated drinking water is consumed by people?

10. How much of a chicken is water?

11. How much of a pineapple is water?

12. How much of a tomato is water?

13. How much of an elephant is water?

14. How much of an ear of corn is water?

15. How much does a gallon of water weight?


Check your answers!!!

Answers: 1. Some 80% of the Earth is covered by water or ice. Only about 20% is dry land.

2. 97% of the water on earth is salty ocean and 2% is frozen.
The remaining 1% is available to meet human needs.

3. If you're an adult, your body contains about 40 quarts
or 10 gallons of water.

4. A man's body is 60-65% water.
A woman's is 50-60% water.
The human brain is about 75% water.

5. Muscle tissue contains a large amount of water.
Fat tissues contain virtually no water.
Men tend to have more muscle as a percentage
of body weight while women have more fat.

6. You lose 2.5 to 3 quarts of water per day
through normal elimination, sweating and breathing.
If you exercise or live in a humid climate,
you may lose another quarter.

7. It has zero calories and zero sugar,
but a good drink of water can reduce hunger.
Water also helps your body metabolize stored fats,
helps maintain proper muscle tone,
and helps rid the body of wastes.

8. Lawn sprinkling uses the most water outdoors.
Inside, toilets use the most, with an average of
27 gallons per person per day.
Laundry averages 17 gallons per person per day and
showers 14 gallons.

9. Typically, less than 1% of the treated
drinking water, produced by utilities
is actually consumed by people.
Most goes for lawns, showers
and tubs, toilets, etc.

10. 75%

11. 80%

12. 95%

13. 76%

14. 80%

15. 1 liter of water weighs 1 kg
1 gallon = 3.78 liter
1 gallon of water = 3.78 kg
1 kg = 1000 gram
1 European pound = 500 gram
1 American pound = 453 gram
1 European ton = 1000 kg
1 American ton = 906 kg