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what % of water on earth is salt water?
97%
what water on earth is freshwater
3%
where is the majority of freshwater found
glacers,lake,rivers and ground water
where is the smaller % of fresh water
what is precipitation
when water vapor in the air cools and condesneses to form liquid water or ice crystasls
what is runoff
water running off the land surface
what is infiltrations
water and becomes groundwater below the surface
what is transpiration
plants relese water vapor to the air through their leaves
what is evaporation
when water enters the atmostophere as water vapor
what is condensation
water vapor colliides with other water milecules to form water droplets
what is the water cycle
water on the land evaporates and laters comes back to the ground
what is an unsaturted zone for groundwater storage
prosce area pass
what is a saturated zone for ground storge
unarueted
what is a water table
what dose it mean if sediment is permeable