Water Resources
This type of freshwater is found in rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
What is surface water?
This vast body of salt water covers about 71% of the Earth's surface.
What is the ocean?
This is the term for water used in homes for drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing.
What is domestic use?
Water stored beneath the Earth's surface in layers of rock and soil.
What is ground water?
These flowing bodies of freshwater move from higher to lower elevations and often lead to lakes or seas.
What are rivers?
Farmers rely on this type of water use to grow crops and raise livestock.
What is agricultural use?
About 97% of the Earth's water is this type, making it unsuitable for drinking without treatment.
What is salt water?
Found beneath the Earth's surface, this water is stored in porous rock layers called aquifers.
What is groundwater?
Factories and power plants use large amounts of water for cooling, processing, and manufacturing.
What is industrial use?
This type of water source is naturally replenished through the water cycle, including rainfall, rivers, and groundwater recharge.
What is renewable source?
These large, slow-moving masses of ice store most of the world’s freshwater.
What are glaciers?
This process is used to supply water to crops when there is not enough rainfall.
What is irrigation?
Even though it’s covered in ice, this continent is the driest on Earth because it receives very little precipitation.
What is Antarctica?
Formed when water collects in low areas, these bodies of freshwater can be natural or artificial.
What are lakes?
The contamination of water by chemicals, waste, or other harmful substances is known as this.
What is water pollution?