Zusammenfassung der Ressource
EARTH'S WATER
- OCEANS AND SEAS
- Oceans are enormous
areas of salt water.
- There are 5 oceans.
- Seas are smaller than oceans
- Seas form part of oceans.
- LAKES
- large bodies of water completely
surronded by land
- Most contain
fresh water
- Some of salt
water
- RIVERS
- It's a flowing stream
of salt water
- stages of a river
- Upper course
- Source
- water flows quickly
- river is smaller
- Middle course
- river gets bigger and wider
- river begins to slow down
- Lower course
- river becomes wider
- water flows more slowly
- Mouth
- AQUIFERS
- groundwater collects
in layers of rock
- spring
- well
- porous rock
- GLACIERS
- thick masses of ice that
cover large areas of land
- near the North and
the South Poles
- snow accumulates and
becomes compact
- WATER CYCLE
- the movement of the water
between the hydrosphere,
atmosphere and geosphere
- Evaporation
- water is heated by the sun
- Condensation
- water vapour rises and condensates
- Precipitation
- water droplets from clouds fall
- Collection
- water collects in rivers, lakes, aquifers...