Drag the tiles to the boxes to form correct pairs.
Match the detailed statements from the passage with the major points they best support.
A simple means of desalinating water
uses a process found in nature.
Desalinization is not used as
often worldwide as it could be.
Desalinization using distillation
is not modern science.
Many arid regions of the world
use desalinization to convert
sea water to drinking water.
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Major Point
the current processes are expensive,
energy-intensive, and involve
large-scale facilities.
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The most important users of desalinated
water are in the Middle East . . . which
uses about 70% of worldwide capacity
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In ancient times, many civilizations
used this process on their ships to
convert sea water into drinking water.
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The low-tech approach . . . is to construct
a "solar still" which uses heat from the sun
to run a distillation process to cause dew to
form on something like plastic sheeting."
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The most important users of desalinated water are in the Middle East . . . which uses about 70% of worldwide capacity
In ancient times, many civilizations used this process on their ships to convert sea water into drinking water.
Desalinization is not used as often worldwide as it could be.