Y5 - Geography (Term 1, ch1)

Water is one of the most important substances on earth.

• True

• False

Without water to eat, we would die.

• True

• False

About __________ percent of our body weight is water.

• 70

• 80

• 90

• 100

People can live for a month or more without food, but we can live for only three or four days without water.

• True

• False

How can we use water?

• We drink water.

• We wash our bodies, clothes and many other things with water.

• We flush our toilet with water.

• We fill balloons with water and throw them at our annoying brother.

• We cook with water.

In some places where there is little rain and the land is dry, from where do farmers bring water?

• rivers

• lakes

• wells

• toilet bowls

• water balloons

Water is carried in pipes and ditches.

• irrigation

• irritation

• inflamation

• constipation

• evaporation

Which of the following are true?

• Without water to drink, we would die.

• Plants need water to live just like we do.

• Animals that provide us with meat, milk and eggs need large amounts of clean water to drink.

• Water is home to millions of plants and animals, including the fish and shellfish we eat.

• Water helps to produce electricity.

All power stations that burn fuel use water to make __________.

• steam

• bread

• rice

• cotton

• eggs

It turns the machines in power stations that produce electricity.

• steam

• bicycle

• machine

• solid

• hamster