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The great lakes contain nearly one tenth or one fifth of the worlds fresh surface water?
It contains one-fifth of the worlds fresh surfacewateer!
Most of Earth's fresh surface water is found in?
Most of Earth's fresh surface water is found in glaciers and ice caps, with about 68.7% of it stored in these ice formations. Another significant portion is found in lakes, which contain about 20.9% of the planet's fresh surface water.
What percentage of earths freshwater supply does the great lakes account for?
25% of earths fresh water is contained in the Great lakes
What percent of the water found in all the Earth's freshwater lakes is in the Great Lakes?
The Great Lakes contain about 84% of the freshwater in North America and approximately 21% of the world's surface freshwater. Therefore, the Great Lakes hold a significant portion of the Earth's freshwater lakes water.
Why might a lake in a hot region contain salt water?
Twenty-one percent of the fresh water on Earth's surface is liquid. Most of this water is in rivers and lakes. Thousands of freshwater rivers cross Earth's surface. The water in a river starts out as a trickle of water high in the mountains. As other trickles join it, the water becomes a river that flows into the ocean. Most lakes hold fresh water. A lake is a small to medium-sized body of water surrounded by land. Some lakes,such as Mono Lake in California,contain salt water. Saltwater lakes lose water rapidly through evaporation.
All the lakes in the world?
They all contain water.
Are most lakes salt?
No, most lakes contain fresh water, not salt. Some salt lakes do exist.
Water collecting in lakes and rivers is called?
accumulation
What does fresh water mean?
Fresh water is water that does not contain any salt content. Oceans and some lakes contain salt. Fresh water sources include most creeks, streams, lakes, and rivers.
How was the everglades?
It was created by surface water foolding the lakes.
What percent of earth water is found in lakes?
Lakes contain about 0.4% of the Earth's water. The majority of Earth's water is found in oceans, with only a small fraction in lakes, rivers, and streams.
Put the following types of water in order from largest amount found on earth to smallest:glaciers/licecaps,groundwater,rivers/lakes,saltwater?
Oceans lakes swamps glaciers and surface water
