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Quick Purple CowPennsylvania Academic Standards: Health, Safety, and Physical Education 10.1.3 B
Just reading the recipe for a Quick Purple Cow can make you feel thirsty. Have you ever wondered how your body knows when you need a drink? See if you can answer the questions in the following quiz. But before you begin, mix up a frosty Purple Cow, take a big drink and read on.
Thirsty Quiz: True or False?
- You should drink six 8 oz. glasses of water each day.
- You can survive longer without food than without water.
- Your body is 1/2 water.
- Water is necessary to keep your blood flowing.
- When you drink, water passes through the wall of the stomach into the blood.
- When your blood is concentrated, it is very watery.
- You lose water from your body by breathing, crying, sweating and going to the bathroom.
- You replace water in your body by drinking and eating.
- Fruits and vegetables contain very little amounts of water.
- If there is not enough water in your blood, your brain sends the signal to your body that it is time to get a drink.
Answers: Show/Hide
- True
- True
- False, your body is actually 2/3 water.
- True
- False, water passes through the walls of the intestines.
- False, when your blood is concentrated it is thick and you will feel thirsty.
- True
- True
- False, fruits and vegetables contain large amounts of water.
- True
Information was adapted from: Munch! Crunch! Lunch! What's for Lunch? By Janice Lobb, copyright date 2000, published by Snapdragon Publishing Ltd.
Funding provided by The Erie County Department of Health & The Pennsylvania Department of Health