Water types

Question 1

How much of the earth is covered by water

Answer 1

72%

Question 2

How much of all water is salt water

Answer 2

97%

Question 3

How much is freshwater?

Answer 3

3%

Question 4

How much freshwater do icecaps and glaciers hold?

Answer 4

68.7%

Question 5

How much freshwater does groundwater hold?

Answer 5

30.1%

Question 6

How much freshwater is on the surface?

Answer 6

0.3%

Question 7

What are some examples of surface water

Answer 7

lakes, swamps, rivers, creeks

Question 8

Glacier

Answer 8

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under it’s own weight

Question 9

Ice Sheet

Answer 9

An ice sheet, also known as a continental glacie, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and it greater than 50 000km2

The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland

Question 10

Ice Cap

Answer 10

An ice cap is a type of glacier

It is smaller than an ice sheet (less than 50 000km2)

Ice caps are usually on mountain tops

Question 11

Aquifer

Answer 11

an aquifer is defined as a body of permeable rock which contains or transmits groundwater

It is underground, stored water, that often needs a well to retrieve

Question 12

Name the states of Matter

Answer 12

solid

liquid

gas