Earth's Water Distribution
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- Q1the percent of Earth's water that is salt water97%30s
- Q2the percent of Earth's water that is fresh water (rivers, lakes, underground, ice-caps, and glaciers)3%30s
- Q3the percent of Earth's water that is frozen (ice-caps and glaciers)2%30s
- Q4the percent of Earth's water that is usable liquid form1%30s
- Q5the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water70%30s
- Q6water that collects above the ground in rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, and wetlandssurface water30s
- Q7a layer of rock underground that collects and stores wateraquifer30s
- Q8water located below Earth's surface that collects in aquifersgroundwater30s
- Q9water from rain and melted snow that flows over the land and collects in bodies of waterrunoff30s
- Q10is a huge sheet of ice that moves slowly on landglacier30s
- Q11is an area of land that drains into rivers or lake-sometimes called drainage basins or river basinswatershed30s
- Q12is the use of artificial methods to supply water to plants-mostly food crops and lawns (sprinkler systems)irrigation30s
- Q13total amount of dissolved salts in water (saltiness of water)salinity30s
- Q14borders eastern Asia, northeastern Australia, Antarctic, & western North & South America; largest & deepest oceanPacific Ocean30s
- Q15borders western Europe, western Africa, Antarctica, & eastern North & South America; 1/2 the size of the Pacific (2nd largest ocean)Atlantic Ocean30s