Water Resources

Question 1

How would living things most likely be affected if there were a shortage of water on Earth?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Living things would not be able to live, reproduce, or regulate their own temperature.

Question 2

Which hold water until it is needed?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

reservoirs

Question 3

What is one disadvantage of desalination?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The process uses fuel that is expensive.

Question 4

How much of the protein consumed by humans around the world is fish?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

20 percent

Question 5

How can people conserve water at home?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

washing dishes only when the dishwasher is full

Question 6

What is one example of reusing water?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

watering flowers with dirty dishwater

Question 7

How much of Earth’s water is fresh water?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

3 percent

Question 8

Where is the majority of Earth’s water found?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

oceans

Question 9

What do manufacturers use water for?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to produce wood and paper products

Question 10

What are some ways water shapes Earth’s surface?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

by forming glaciers and weathering ocean shores

Water Resources Answers