Earth Midterms Chapter 4

Question 1

How much percent of water is in your body?

Answer 1

60

Question 2

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends how much water consumption for men and how much for women per day?

Answer 2

Men - 3.7 liters
Women - 2.7 liters

Question 3

This is the water that is on the surface of the Earth

Answer 3

Surface Waters

Question 4

This includes the oceans, rivers and streams, lakes, and reservoirs

Answer 4

Surface Waters

Question 5

This is the water that has infiltrated the ground to fill the spaces between sediments and cracks in rock

Answer 5

Groundwater

Question 6

True or false. Groundwater is fed by evaporation and can resurface to replenish streams, rivers, and lakes

Answer 6

False. Precipitation

Question 7

What can we use to determine the amount of water that can flow through a particular medium?

Answer 7

Permeability and porosity

Question 8

What happens when there is “high” or good permeability?

Answer 8

Pores are connected and water can travel quickly

Question 9

This includes bathing, drinking, and cooking

Answer 9

Direct purposes

Question 10

This is the use of water in processing goods and services others need and enjoy

Answer 10

Indirect purposes

Question 11

State the three bulk of the world’s water use

Answer 11

Agriculture, industry, and electricity

Question 12

State the most common water uses

Answer 12

Drinking and Household Needs
Recreation
Industry
Agriculture
Energy

Question 13

This is water used for household tasks like drinking, washing, cooking, or watering a garden

Answer 13

Domestic Use

Question 14

How much water does one human require a day in order to maintain health? and what is this called?

Answer 14

50L of clean water. Basic Water Requirement (BWR)

Question 15

The uses within the sector are very diverse and include mainly irrigation, pesticide and fertilizer application, and sustaining livestock

Answer 15

Agricultural use

Question 16

This includes the vast amounts of water necessary for manufacture, fabrication, washing, conveyance, cooling, extraction, and service provision

Answer 16

Industrial ues

Question 17

How much water did it take to make a cotton shirt?

Answer 17

2,500 liters of water

Question 18

This describes the condition of the water, including chemical, physical, and biological characteristics, usually with respect to its suitability for a particular purpose such as drinking or swimming

Answer 18

Water quality

Question 19

What are the different types of water quality

Answer 19

Potable water, Palatable water, and contaminated water (physical, chemical, biological, radiological)

Question 20

State the criteria from the Philippine National Standards for Water

Answer 20

1. Drinking water must be clear and does not have objectionable taste, odor and color. It must be pleasant to drink and free from all harmful organisms, chemical substances and radionuclides in amounts which could constitute a hazard to the health of the consumer
2. The quality of drinking water shall be measured in terms of its microbiological, physical, chemical, and radiological, constituents.

3.The parameters of drinking water quality shall be classified as mandatory, primary and secondary

Question 21

This pertains to directly affecting health and or will render the water unacceptable for drinking

Answer 21

Mandatory Parameters

Question 22

Chemical impurities that directly affect health

Answer 22

Primary Parameters

Question 23

Those that render the water unacceptable for drinking

Answer 23

Secondary Parameters

Question 24

This is linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio

Answer 24

Contaminated water and poor sanitation

Question 25

What is the percentage of patients that develop an infection during a hospital stay

Answer 25

15%

Question 26

This is the most widely known disease linked to contaminated food and water

Answer 26

Diarrhea