Hold your breath
Try it now.
Discomfort comes quickly, because the body has been cut off from the oxygen it needs.
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Try it now.
Discomfort comes quickly, because the body has been cut off from the oxygen it needs.
The urgent one.
Food can wait some days and water rather fewer. Oxygen cannot wait many minutes.
Air is a mixture.
Nitrogen, oxygen, argon and carbon dioxide, with traces of several more besides.
The figure to start with.
That much of the surface of the Earth is covered by it, which is why nobody expects a shortage.
And the catch.
Oceans and seas hold saline water, and that will not do for homes, farms or industry.
What we actually need.
Found as ice sheets and snow, as rivers and lakes, and underground.
Hold your breath and you find out how little time the body will wait. Air is a mixture, mostly nitrogen, and the part that keeps you going is only a fifth of it.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Two-thirds of the planet is under water, and almost none of it can be drunk. The gap between how much there is and how much we can reach is what makes every drop worth saving.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Two children argue about where a grazing cow gets its energy. Settling that one argument properly shows why the Sun stands behind every meal anybody has ever eaten.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Fallen leaves feed the soil that grows the next tree, and the soil itself came from rock broken down over thousands of years. Everything here is slow, and that is the point.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
Petrol, coal and natural gas took millions of years to form and will be gone in far less. Sorting resources by how fast nature replaces them is what the last section of this chapter is for.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
145 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Air is best described as:
Beginnera mixture of several gases
Several gases together carry the one name.
Out of every hundred parts of air, nitrogen takes:
Beginner78
More than three quarters of the whole.
Out of every hundred parts of air, oxygen takes:
Beginner21
About a fifth, which surprises most people.
Argon, carbon dioxide and the other gases together take:
Beginner1 part in a hundred
One square on the grid, for all of them.
75 flashcards in this kit — the app reviews them with spaced repetition so the right card returns on the right day.
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