Sources of Water
All plants and animals that live on land need freshwater to survive. How much water do you think!
at takes to support all that life! Only a small percentage of the Earth water is able for
drinking. Most of the Earth water, salt water found in the name and cannot be
med by plants and animals. Another of Earth water is fre e trapped in laders or
other forms of ice. This water is not available to us. Only about is of Earth water is freshwater
that is available for our use. This water found in lalci rivestream winds and
underground. Most ames are sources of
freshwater. The Great Lakes, shown to the right
are the largest frestrwater lakes in the world. The
Great Lakes, as with many freshwater lains, are
formed from glaciers. When glaciers move, they
carve ost parts of the land. When the place
sd, the water left behind fills in holes that were
carved out and we are t he lakes and ponds.
There are bow l ais on Earth that
As mentioned earlies, the mo r e contains water in the form of gas called water vapor
Mach of this is esported from the C . Some of this water vapormax codes and all to
the ground as precipitation. When the water teaches the ground, most of it is lost of
Runed water goes intolakes and there. Most of u eventually ends up in the ces Water that
soak in the ground and groundwater and this water can collect is underground layers of
rock, gravior and to form equidens. These provide a great deal of freshwater toe drinking
industry and agrics
2. A human body is about 65% water. How old do you think this water? Why