Splash Island
Splash Island | |
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Entrance to Splash Island | |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada ![]() |
Splash Island educational water park is located at the Toronto Zoo, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It uses interactive exhibits to teach about the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, etc.); aquatic animals; water flow in rivers, lakes, and oceans; and more.
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Visitors can spray each other with water cannons.
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An exhibit group teaches about water evaporation in nature.
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A polar-themed exhibit teaches about the states-of-matter of water: solid (ice), liquid (water), and gas, etc.
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Splash Island is part of the Discovery Zone educational effort.
Exhibits teach evaporation, and how nature facilitates evaporation within plant life; and the three states-of-matter (solid, liquid, and gas), using polar bears and ice to show water in its solid state.
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