Why not ask
your family about the
facts and numbers?
A new page
about something
important
BY YOUNG REPORTER KERENSA
There is more water covering the
Earth than there is land – just over
70% of the globe is water. It’s not
always a liquid, though; most of
the planet’s fresh water is ice. Ice is
found at the North and South Pole
and in glaciers (rivers of ice). Every
continent has glaciers, even Africa!
On the subject of ice, did you know
that hot water can sometimes
freeze faster than cold water?
When someone is born they are 80%
water. Even later in life, there is still a lot
of water in humans, for example your
brain is 70% water. How the body is
made up varies according to whether
you are a boy or a girl and how fit you
are because fatty tissue of our bodies
contains less water than lean tissue.
Every day, we lose just a little more than
a cup of water when we breathe out.
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