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Water Quiz

1. By volume, the number one pollutant of Virginia's water is:
From sewage treatment plants
Sediment
Industrial waste
Litter

2. Of these substances, which best absorbs heat?
Water
Ammonia
Kerosene
Oil

3. Water accounts for how much of your body weight?
15 percent
40 percent
65 percent
95 percent

4. How much of Earth's water is freshwater?
3 percent
10 percent
50 percent
75 percent

5. Water, "the universal solvent," can over time dissolve anything except
Rock
Gold
Steel
Some plastics, other man-made compounds

6. Which disease is not transmitted through water?
Dysentery
Typhoid fever
Cholera
Malaria

7. From which source does the highest percentage of water evaporate?
The oceans
Freshwater lakes
Plants and trees
Rivers and streams

8. People use about how many gallons of water daily?
5
10
25
70

9. Factories use the greatest amount of which of the following?
Oil
Water
Wood
Iron

10. Water exists as a . . .
Solid
Liquid
Gas
All of the above

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