Earth's Water Project - GDocs

• Where is the Earth's Water?
• Ground Water Use in the US
• Surface Water Use in the US

Go to the “Our Earth’s Water” Google Docs.

The data in the Google Doc describes the World’s total water supply.  

Open Our Earth’s Water in Google Docs

Duplicate and rename the data sheet.

Put all of your answers to the questions below into your Google Docs sheet.

You may calculate the percentages by hand (calculator) or use the spreadsheet formula tools.

Instructions:

Part I:  Where is our water?

1) Calculate the percentage of the total supply of water for each Water Source.  Leave this written as a decimal.

2) Create a color pie chart of this data with a title and a legend.  Print it large on it’s own page.

Part II:  Fresh Water vs. Saline Water

1) Calculate the percentage of fresh water to the total water supply.

2) Calculate the percentage of saline water to the total water supply.

3) Make a color pie chart that illustrates the percentages of fresh vs. saline water.  Include a title and a legend and print it large on it’s own page.

Part III:  Analyzing our Fresh Water

1) Calculate the percentage of each of the FRESH water sources to the total amount of FRESH water.

2) Create a color pie chart of this data with a title and a legend.  Print it large on it’s own page.

Part IV:  Analysis Questions

Please include a typewritten analysis on a separate piece of paper.  Please number each question on your paper and use complete sentences.

1) Describe one thing that you learned about water during this project.

2) Describe one thing that surprised you about water.

3) What are your thoughts about the amount of freshwater that we have available to us (where most of the freshwater is located).

4) “Rivers are the source of water that most people on the earth use.” Describe your thoughts about this statement and why do you think this is?  

5) Describe something that you liked about this project.