BIOCHEMISTRY
PROPERTIES OF WATER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Aquifers
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Watersheds
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Drainage Basins
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Deltas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Groundwater that soaks into the ground is sometimes stored in underground layers. These underground layers can be used as water sources. Humans extract this water by digging, driving, boring, or drilling wells into the ground and then pumping the water out.
Detailed explanation-2: -The aquifer is a porous rock formation or sedimentary layer that contains groundwater.
Detailed explanation-3: -As these charts and the data table show, the amount of water locked up in ice and snow is only about 1.7 percent of all water on Earth, but the majority of total freshwater on Earth, about 68.7 percent, is held in ice caps and glaciers.
Detailed explanation-4: -b) The process of evaporation of water in the ground is called infiltration.