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

How much of Earth’s water is fresh water?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

3 percent

Question 3

Which hold water until it is needed?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

reservoirs

Question 4

Which part of Earth absorbs the most sunlight?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

oceans

Question 5

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

20 percent

Question 6

What is one example of reusing water?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

watering flowers with dirty dishwater

Question 7

What is one important role that ocean waters have in heating Earth?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

absorb and transport solar energy

Question 8

Where is the majority of Earth’s water found?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

oceans

Question 9

What are some ways water shapes Earth’s surface?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

by forming glaciers and weathering ocean shores

Question 10

What is one disadvantage of desalination?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The process uses fuel that is expensive.

Water Resources Answers