Freshwater
97%
What percentage of the Earth's water is saltwater?
What is the difference between saltwater and freshwater?
Freshwater has little to no salt, while Saltwater has a lot of salt.
Areas where standing water covers the soil, or area where ground is very wet
What are wetlands?
This system includes all of the water on and around the Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
About 69%
What percentage of freshwater comes from ice caps and glaciers?
Does the salt in the ocean evaporate during the water cycle?
No, only the water evaporates.
About 71% or 3/4 of Earth
What percentage of the Earth is covered in water?
Includes all of the gases that surround the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Found on the Earth's surface.
What is surface water?
How many oceans are there?
5
This body of water is flowing and smaller than a river.
What is a stream or creek?
This system includes all of the living things on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
This body of water is large, surrounded by land, and is still.
What is a lake?
This system includes all of the landforms, sea floor, soil, sand, rocks, etc. on Earth.
What is the Geosphere?
3%
What percentage of the water on Earth is freshwater?
What is desalination?
What two spheres interact when the plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen?
Atmosphere and Biosphere.