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    1. Water is essential for life. Humans, plants, and animals all require water to survive. We use water for drinking, washing, cooking, irrigation of crops, industrial processes, and electricity generation. 2. Most of the Earth's water is salty ocean water. Less than 3% is freshwater, found in lakes, rivers, ice caps, and glaciers. Plants and animals also rely on freshwater sources. Water is constantly circulated between oceans, atmosphere, and land through the water cycle. 3. On a daily basis, the average human needs around 2 liters of water while a dairy cow needs over 135 liters and a large oak tree requires about 20,000 liters.

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    1. Water is essential for life. Humans, plants, and animals all require water to survive. We use water for drinking, washing, cooking, irrigation of crops, industrial processes, and electricity generation. 2. Most of the Earth's water is salty ocean water. Less than 3% is freshwater, found in lakes, rivers, ice caps, and glaciers. Plants and animals also rely on freshwater sources. Water is constantly circulated between oceans, atmosphere, and land through the water cycle. 3. On a daily basis, the average human needs around 2 liters of water while a dairy cow needs over 135 liters and a large oak tree requires about 20,000 liters.

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    1. Water is essential for life. Humans, plants, and animals all require water to survive. We use water for drinking, washing, cooking, irrigation of crops, industrial processes, and electricity generation. 2. Most of the Earth's water is salty ocean water. Less than 3% is freshwater, found in lakes, rivers, ice caps, and glaciers. Plants and animals also rely on freshwater sources. Water is constantly circulated between oceans, atmosphere, and land through the water cycle. 3. On a daily basis, the average human needs around 2 liters of water while a dairy cow needs over 135 liters and a large oak tree requires about 20,000 liters.

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    P5 Geography Typing 1

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    Primary – 5 (Geography) Water

    1.1 We need water

    Water is one of the most important substances on Earth. Without water to drink we would die. About
    70 per cent of our body weight is water. People have lived for a month or more without food, but we
    could live for only three or four days without water.

    How do we use water? We drink water. We wash our bodies, our clothes and many other things with
    water. We use water to flush the toilet. The foods we eat have water in them, all our drinks are largely
    water. We use water to cook many of our foods and we use water for leisure activities, such as boating,
    swimming and fishing.

    Plants need water

    Plants need water to live just like we do. Plants use their roots to take up water from the soil. The crops
    that farmers grow for our food need water to grow. In some places where there is little rain and the land
    is dry, farmers bring water from rivers, lakes and wells to their fields. The water is carried in pipes and
    ditches. This special kind of watering is called irrigation. Some crops need more water to grow than
    others. Rice and cotton, for example, need lots of water, while olives and oranges need only a little.

    Animals need water

    Animals also need water to live. The animals that provide us with meat, milk and eggs need large
    amounts of clean water to drink. Water is also home to millions of plants and animals, including the
    fish and shellfish we eat.

    Industry

    Some industries use water to cool hot substances or the moving parts of machinery. Water also helps to
    produce most of our electricity. All power stations that burn fuels use water to make steam. This turns
    the machines that produce electricity. In hydro-electric power stations the water off fast-flowing rivers
    is used to turn the machines that produce electricity.

    Water is used to make many kinds of food and many of the things we see or use every day.

    How much water do animals and plants need?

    Human 2 litres per day


    Dairy cow 135 litres per day
    Large oak tree 20 000 litres per day

    1.2 Water everywhere

    Look at a globe or the map of the world on pages 60-61. Can you see that nearly three quarters of the
    earth is covered by water?
    Nearly three quarters of the Earth is covered by water , but most of the water is salty seawater. Much of
    the freshwater is in the form of ice.
    Salty Water

    About 97 per cent of all the water on Earth is salty. The water in the oceans and seas is always salty.
    Some of this salt has come from volcanoes under the sea, but most of it has come from rocks on land.
    When rain falls, it dissolves some of the salt in the rocks. Rivers and streams dissolve even more of the
    salt in rocks and carry it down to the sea.

    Oceans

    There are the five great oceans in the world. Can you name them? The largest is the Pacific Ocean. It
    covers about one third of the Earth and its average depth is over 4000 metres. All the oceans are
    connected to each other, so that their waters mix together.

    Seas

    Some seas, such as the American Sea and the Sargasso Sea, are parts of oceans. Others, such as the Red
    Sea and the Black Sea, are surrounded by land, and so are separate from the oceans. The largest of the
    world’s seas is the South China Sea.

    Freshwater

    We can only use freshwater for drinking, washing, cooking or watering plants. Most of the freshwater
    we use comes from lakes, rivers and wells.

    Some of the freshwater is found in the form of ice. Most of the ice is around the North and South Poles,
    in huge sheets called polar ice caps. Ice is also found on the tops of high mountains. Sometimes ice
    flows down the mountain like slow-moving rivers. These are called glaciers.

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