EARTH SCIENCE
OCEANS
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Question
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Most fresh water is located underground.
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Less than 1% of fresh water is surface water.
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Frozen water is less than 50% of Earth’s fresh water
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Groundwater makes up the most amount of fresh water on Earth
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Detailed explanation-1: -As we know, humans can use only freshwater for consumption. Approx. 99-99.2% of the total water goes into saline water and ice and glaciers, so the freshwater available for use amounts to about less than 1% of the total water found. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
Detailed explanation-2: -Almost all of it is locked up in ice and in the ground. Only a little more than 1.2% of all freshwater is surface water, which serves most of life’s needs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Surface water is any body of water found on the Earth’s surface, including both the saltwater in the ocean and the freshwater in rivers, streams, and lakes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Solution. Because salt water constitutes about 97.2% and freshwater is only about 2.8%.
Detailed explanation-5: -Only 3% of the available water is freshwater out of which only 1% of the world’s freshwater is found in rivers, ponds and lakes. About 67% of freshwater is locked in the form of ice in glaciers and snow. Q. What percentage of world’s freshwater is found in rivers, ponds and lakes?