Name: * Key A Date: Earth's Water Period: Coach Book Activity Page 128 1. Earth is known as what type of planet? WATER Planet 2. What percentage of Earth's surface is covered in water?≈ 70% 3. Living things on Earth need clean water to survive. 4. The hydrosphere under is made up of all the water found on above and Earth's surface. 5. How much of Earth's water is freshwater?≈3% 6.Where is solid, liquid and gas water found on earth? (list 3 for each except gas) Solid Liquid GAS Ice caps Lakes Glaciers Rain Water Vapor Snow Rivers 7. Draw the two pie charts for All Water and Freshwater. ALL H2O Freshwater Icebergs, Glaciers, Snow Ferma fragg 97% SALT WATER 3% Freshwater 30% Ground- water -1% LAKES, Rivers Atmosphere B. The majority of Earth's freshwater is found where? Polar Ice Caps Glaciers contain large amounts of frozen water. 10. Nearly 1/3 of Earth's freshwater is groundwater 11. Describe Groundwater: •Water located below Earth's surface •Collects and moves down through soil and collects in spaces in underground rock. 12. An aquifer is a rock layer that collects and stores water. 13. Where does our freshwater that we drink come from? How is it replenished? Freshwater often comes from arnaquifer, It is replenished when surface water moves down to replace the water missing in the aquifer. issing A 14. Where is most of Earth's surface water found? Streams, Rivers, Laars, WETLANDS 15. What is runoff? Water that flows over the land without sinking into the ground. 16. What does runoff do? What are some harmful aspects of runoff? Runoff can move water and offrer marterial from one place to another. It can dissolve harmful chemicals and fertilizers and move them into labes and rivers, 17. A watershed is an area of land that drains into a stream, river, lake or other body of water. They are separated by land barriers called divides Give an example of a divide. Rocky Mountains/Continental Dowde 18. Draw Watershed features: WATER FALL WETLAND STREAM RIVER OCEAN 19. What is a River basin? LAKE A large watershed that contains a river and its tributaries. 20. What is an estuary? A body of water in which freshwater and saltwater mixes. 21. How many River basins are there is NC? 17 22. Which rivers drains directly into the Atlantic Ocean? CAPE Fear River