Most of the world's population still does not attach much importance, and does not pay due attention to the availability, quality and quantity of water in our lives.For those lucky enough to live in a non-arid areas, the water is not of great value, but scientists are very concerned about the state of water resources in the world.And with each passing day reveals new and interesting facts about water.
Water in figures
- Now water covers 70% of the planet's surface, are suitable for human consumption is only 1%.From all of the world's water resources, fresh water - it is only 3% of which are available only to 1.5% of a person.
- Nearly half of all the water, namely 46%, is located in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean accounts for 23.9% of water, the Indian Ocean has got 20.3%, and the Arctic - 3.7%.
- temperature at which water freezes is 1.91 nautical degrees Celsius.
- In one glass of water is 8 septillionov molecules!
- On our planet, there are about 1330 species of natural water.They are classified by the method of descent (melt, soil, rain) and composition.
Interesting facts about water and human
- person needs about two liters of water a day.Water promotes weight loss: Drinking more than two liters, we give the opportunity to cleanse the body of toxins faster.Water well dulls hunger, drunk on an empty stomach or before meals.
- People who drink the amount of water daily are less prone to heart attacks than those who drink little pure water.
- Without water a person can survive for only six days.
- adult body consists of water by 70%, children - 80% of the fruit in the five months of age even by 94%!
- During his life a person drinks about thirty-five tons of water.A thirty-three liters of water, you can boil the human body energy released per day.
Standing water
still available to us interesting information about the water and its states.
- Scientists have found five states of liquid water and fourteen - solid.
- Cold water freezes to ice slowly hot, it proved a schoolboy.
- ice is denser than liquid water, therefore rests on its surface.
- The largest ice deposits in the world are at polar "caps".
- Seawater contains protein and many other nutrients.
- jellyfish is 99% water, and watermelon - 93%.
- average temperature of the global ocean on three degrees higher than the temperature of the nearest layer of air.
- In Azerbaijan, there is water that can burn due to the large amounts of methane in the composition.
- In South Africa, water flows from the taps, edible untreated - the third in the world in purity, and the first place is the water in Finland.
- lake in Antarctica eleven times saltier sea and only freezes at -50 ° C.
- March 22 - World Water Day.
Water: interesting facts for kids
as long as possible to preserve our vital water reserves on the planet, first and foremost, must be handled carefully and sparingly to treat it and to teach it to their children.Child in any matter should be interested.Spend time with the baby talk, which tells him interesting facts about water according to their age.All the children - maximalists, so the information that begins with the words "very, very", is bound to cause concern, and deposited in the memory!
- biggest drop of rain was the size of 9.4 cm!These droplets fall on the United States.
- longest continuous rain was in India for almost two years!
- The largest hailstone weighed one kilogram and two grams!She fell on Bangladesh.
- thickness of the clouds in the sky can be more than Mount Everest, the thickness can be up to sixteen kilometers!
- iceberg may melt away as much as ten years.
It's not all the interesting facts about water, especially since every day they become more.Look, learn, make opening themselves to the world was a better and more interesting!
