Quiz 2-3 (Earth's Water)
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About 97 percent of the water on Earth circles the globe as
oceans.
When clouds gather more water than they can hold, they release moisture as
precipitation.
desalination
process of turning ocean water into freshwater
hydrosphere
Earth's bodies of water
An underground rock layer saturated with water is
an aquifer.
evaporation
changing of liquid water into vapor
Water vapor changing into liquid water is called
condensation.
groundwater
freshwater beneath the Earth's surface
Most of the Earth's total freshwater is in
glaciers and ice caps.
water cycle
the movement of water through different forms