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50 questions · auto-graded multiple-choice test.
People obtain ground water through hand pumps and wells.
Rain is the source of water on earth. And about $71\%$ of the earth’s surface is covered with water. Though, heavy rainfall is the source of water, not for water shortage.
Snow and ice are frozen while water vapour is in gaseous state. Water from lake and river are in liquid state.
Worlds Water Day is observed on $22$ March every year.
Most of the water present on earth is not fit for consumption by us. Sea and oceans contain salty water which cannot be drunk. Even most of the fresh water is frozen as ice in glaciers and polar regions.
Hence, we are left with limited amount of water from lake, river and under the ground.
$95\%$ of the Earth's water is stored in its oceans, from where the water cycle starts.
Year $2003$ was observed as the International Year of Freshwater to make people aware of this dwindling natural resource.
Earth appears blue because $81\%$ of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
The Earth has been blue for over $4$ billion years because of the liquid water on its surface.
There is only one known planet with permanent bodies of liquid water at its surface: ours.
Earth sciences allow us to explain why the Earth has almost always been blue: it's neither too warm nor too cold.