The Water Cycle: Global Scale

Question 1

Global distribution of water

Answer 1

97% oceans
2.5% freshwater
1%. Surface water and other freshwater

Question 2

How much of the freshwater is frozen

Answer 2

69%— glaciers, icecaps and Ice sheets
30% is groundwater

Question 3

Water can be stored in 4 areas

Answer 3

Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Crysophere and atmosphere

Question 4

Hydrosphere

Answer 4

Any liquid water

Question 5

Lithosphere

Answer 5

Water stored in the crust and upper mantle

Question 6

Cryosphere

Answer 6

Any water that is frozen

Question 7

Atmosphere

Answer 7

Water vapour

Question 8

What are aquifers

Answer 8

Underground water stores and on a global scale are unevenly distributed
Shallow groundwater aquifers can store water up to 200 years, but deeper fossil aquifers formed during wetter climatic periods, may last for 10,000 years