Test your knowledge of water trivia

What do you know about water? Take this test and see how you do.

1. Water is the only substance found on earth naturally in three forms?

2. Does water regulate the earth’s temperature?

3. At what temperature does water freeze?

4. At what temperature does water vaporize?

5. How long can a person live without food? Without water?

6. How much of the human body is water?

7. How much of the earth’s surface is water?

8. How much water must a person consume per day to maintain health?

9. Of all the earth’s water, how much is ocean and seas?

10. How much of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable?

11. How much of the earth’s water is suitable for drinking?

12. Is it possible to drink water that was part of the dinosaur era?

13. How much water must a dairy cow drink to produce one gallon of milk?

14. How much water does the average residence use during a year?

15. How much water does an individual use daily?

16. What does a person pay for water on a daily basis?

17. How many community public water systems are there in the United States?

18. How much does one gallon of water weigh?

19. How much water does it take to process a quarter pound of hamburger?

20. How many miles of pipelines and aqueducts are in the United States and Canada?

21. How many households use private wells for their water supply?

22. What were the first water pipes made from in the United States?

23. Where was the first municipal water filtration works opened and when?

24. How much water is used to manufacture a new car, including new tires?

25. How much water is used to produce a single day’s supply of U.S. newsprint?

Answers: 1. TRUE (solid, liquid, gas). 2. YES. 3. 32 degrees F, 0 degrees C. 4. 212 degrees F, 100 degrees C. 5. More than a month; about one week depending on conditions. 6. 66 percent. 7. 80 percent. 8. 2.5 quarts from all sources. 9. 97 percent. 10. 2 percent. 11. 1 percent. 12. YES. Water is constantly recycled. 13. Four gallons. 14. More than 100,000 gallons. 15. More than 100 gallons. 16. National average is 25 cents. 17. 54,000. 18. 8.34 pounds. 19. About one gallon. 20. About 1 million miles or enough to circle the earth 40 times. 21. More than 13 million. 22. Fire-charred, bored logs. 23. Paisley, Scotland in 1832. 24. 39,090 gallons. 25. 300 million gallons.

More questions are available at: http://www.epa/gov/safewater

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency