Water Web Quest
                           
                            
                           
                           Use the
                           following URL to complete the following activities or questions about water.  Use a piece of poster board, divide it into 15
                           sections and show the answer to each question in each poster box with some
                           graphic that helps bring home the point.
                           
                            
                           
                           http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mwater.html
                           
                            
                           
                           
                           - Complete the True/False quiz
                           on water properties. Write out the statements on your poster.
 
                           
                           
                           - How much would you weigh if
                           ALL of the water was dehydrated from your body? (HINT: see Water in You)
 
                           
                           
                           - What is it that makes water
                           unique here on earth (HINT: see Water
                           Properties)?
 
                           
                           
                           - What does water do better than
                           any other liquid?
 
                           
                           
                           - Why might some scientists
                           think of water as a sticky molecule?
 
                           
                           
                           - Make a drawing of the water
                           cycle. Use the picture from USGS as your resource.
 
                           
                           
                           - What percentage of the earth
                           is water?
 
                           
                           
                           - Make a simple graph showing
                           how much water is found on the earth, and how much of that water is usable
                           to humans. You may use Excel or any other spreadsheet to do so.
 
                           
                           
                           - What place on Earth gets the greatest amount of rainfall? (HINT: it would
                           be a great place to vacation)?
 
                           
                           10.Find the graph of trends in water usage. Explain in what
                           ways water is being used more today, and probably more in the future.
                           
                            
                           
                           11.What percent of Michigan do you think is water covered?
                           Which state has the highest percentage of water area? Is the West really
                           "drier" than the rest of the country? (HINT: Special Topics)
                           
                            
                           
                           12.What is saline water? 
                           
                            
                           
                           13. In the Activity section, take the
                           water survey, list three things you learned by taking this survey and observing
                           the data presented?
                           
                            
                           
                           14. List the questions and the answers
                           to the Challenge Questions.
                           
                            
                           
                           15.
                           Find the Q &
                           A section about Water Chemistry. Answer any three of these questions on your
                           poster.