EARTH SCIENCE
OCEANS
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Question
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Which best explains why all of the Earth’s freshwater is not available for human use?
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Most of Earth’s freshwater is frozen water.
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Most of Earth’s freshwater is still in the water cycle.
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Most of Earth’s freshwater is underground.
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Most of Earth’s freshwater is found only in lakes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Which best explains why all of the Earth’s freshwater is not available for human use? Most of Earth’s freshwater is underground.
Detailed explanation-2: -3% of the earth’s water is fresh. 2.5% of the earth’s fresh water is unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
Detailed explanation-3: -Over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in ground water. Only about 0.3 percent of our fresh water is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps.
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