[etni] Fw: WATER FACTS FOR TEACHING DISCOVER
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- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:37:08 +0200
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From: Barry Silverberg (and family) - barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: WATER FACTS FOR TEACHING DISCOVER
EXCUSE ME, I HAVE TO TAKE A LEAK.
SERIOULY, HERE ARE SOME WATER FACTS FOR DISCOVER TEACHERS.
AND FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE A WORK SHEET CENTRE ORGANIZED
BY TEXTBOOK ON THIS SITE? LIKE THERE USET A BE?
I NEVER GET A CLEAR ANSWER. IF IT'S A LET'S-NOT-GET-THE- PUBLISHERS- ANGRY
THING, JUST TELLME.
MEANWHILE, I AM TEACHING A ZILLION NEW BOOKS THIS EAR: KEY TO READING, TAKE
ACTION, DISCOVER, TARGETS AND SCOOTERMAN ( JUST CHECKING IF YOU'RE AWAKE.
HA HA) SO I NEED TESTS, WORKPAGES, A LESSON PLAN AS WELL AS SOMEONE TO FEED
THE FISH. BEING ABLE TO SHARE RESOURCES WOULD HELP A LOT.
EIGHTEEN FUN WATER FACTS
1. (One gallon of water is equal to 3.785 liters of water.)
2. 75 % of the earth is covered with water.
3. Although a person can live without food for more than a month, a person
can only live without water for approximately one week.
4. The average person in Israel uses 60 to 80 liters of water each day.
5. It takes 2 gallons to brush your teeth, 2 to 7 gallons to flush a toilet,
and 25 to 50 gallons to take a shower.
6. It takes 2,072 gallons of water to make four new tires.
7. Water boils at 100o Celsius AND water freezes at 0o Celsius.
8. Frozen water is 9% lighter than water, which is why ice floats on water.
9. A litre of water weighs 1.01 kilograms.
10. Approximately 66% of the human body consists of water. The total amount
of water in the body of an average adult is 37 litres. Human brains are 75%
water. Human bones are 25% water. Human blood is 83% water.
11. 75% of a chicken is water. 80% of a pineapple is water. 95% of a tomato
is water. 70% of an elephant is water.
12. A single tree will give off 265 liters (70 gallons) of water per day in
evaporation.
13. A small drip from a faucet can waste as much as 75 litres of water a
day.
14. A person must consume 2 litres of water daily to live healthily. Humans
drink an average of 75.000 litres of water throughout their life.
15. Water leaves the stomach five minutes after consumption.
16. Four litres (1 gallon) of gasoline can contaminate approximately 2.8
million litres (750,000 gallons) of water.
17. Each day almost 10,000 children under the age of 5 in Third World
countries die as a result of illnesses contracted by use of impure water.
18. It takes 5,680 litres (1,500 gallons) of water to process one barrel of
beer.
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