World Water Day Quiz
Instructions:
The quiz is made up of two parts. Part one is about where water comes from and
water facts. Part two is about water use. The idea is to get pupils to think about
where water comes from, what we use it for and how much water we use
compared to people in the developing world. The quiz has 10 questions.
Questions 1,2,3,4,5,7,8 and 9 are worth one point. Questions 6 and 10 are worth
three points. Total number of points: 14
Answers:
1) Answer c) nearly three quarters
2) Answer a) Pacific Ocean
3) Answer a) Too salty. Drinking sea water makes you dehydrate and can
make you ill. It is possible to turn seawater into drinking water by taking
the salt out, but this is quite expensive.
4) Answer b) The Nile
5) Answer d) all of these
6) Options include: washing hands, swimming, having a bath, brushing teeth
etc. Award one point for each answer.
7) The answer is b) 150 litres
8) The answer is a) 20 litres (someone in Britain uses this amount to flush
the toilet 2-3 times).
9) Answer c) All of these. Rural Africans get their water from scoop holes,
rivers, streams and floodplains.
10) Options include: play with friends, watch TV, go to school, go out etc.
Award one point for each answer.
Finish by explaining that lots of charities are trying to change this reality for
rural Africans by installing wells in villages so that the community have a safe
supply of water close to their home. This means that women and children no
longer have to spend hours collecting water, so they have more time to look
after their families or go to school.
Village Water is a small charity supporting safe water and sanitation for
communities in rural Zambia.
Village Water
9 College Hill, Shrewsbury
01743 241563
[email protected]
Charity number 1117377
World Water Day Quiz
Part One: Water Facts
1) How much of the earth’s surface is covered by water?
a) Half
b) A quarter
c) Nearly three quarters
2) Which of these is the world’s biggest ocean?
a) Pacific
b) Atlantic
c) Indian
3) Most of the world’s water is found in oceans and seas, but we cannot
drink water from oceans and seas. Why can’t we drink water from oceans
and seas?
a) Because it is too salty
b) Because it’s smelly
c) Because it’s far away
4) Which of these is the World’s longest river?
a) The Amazon
b) The Nile
c) The Mekong
5) Where does the water we drink come from?
a) Rain
b) Reservoirs
c) Under the ground
d) All of these
Part Two: Water Use
6) Think of three things we use water for every day
a)
b)
c)
7) How much water does the average person in Britain use every day for
things like flushing the toilet, making a drink, cooking and cleaning?
a) 200 litres
b) 150 litres
c) 400 litres
8) How much water do you think someone living in rural Africa might use
every day?
a) 20 litres
b) 50 litres
c) 100 litres
9) Many people in rural Africa use less water because they don’t have taps in
their homes like we do, so they have to fetch water from outside and
carry it home. Where do you think they get water from?
a) Rivers and streams
b) Holes in the ground
c) All of these
10) Collecting water takes many hours every day. Think of three things you
wouldn’t be able to do if you had to spend hours fetching water.
a)
b)
c)