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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!
What is the reservoir for most fresh water on earth?
Most of the fresh water on Earth is stored in glaciers and ice caps, particularly in Antarctica and Greenland. Approximately 68.7% of the world's fresh water is locked away in these frozen reserves. The remaining fresh water is found in groundwater, surface water bodies like rivers and lakes, and in the atmosphere. This makes glaciers and ice caps the largest reservoir of fresh water, significantly influencing global water availability.
The world's largest group of freshwater lakes are the?
The world's largest group of freshwater lakes is the Great Lakes, located in North America. They consist of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and together make up one-fifth of the world's surface fresh water.
What is the largest fresh water system in the world?
The largest freshwater system in the world is the Great Lakes system, located in North America. It consists of five interconnected lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. These lakes hold about 84% of North America's surface freshwater.
Is there more salt water in the world than fresh water?
Yes. Only 3% of the water on Earth's surface is freshwater, while the other 97% is salt water. 71% of the Earth's surface is made up of water.
Are the great lakes salt or fresh water?
the Great Lakes are fresh water.( the largest fresh water lakes in the world.)
The largest fresh water lake by surface area in the world is called what?
The largest fresh-water lake by surface area in the world is named Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes in North America.Horse Isle Ans: Superior WigglePuff Chestnut server
Where does the largest amount of fresh water occur?
The largest amount (by volume) of freshwater above ground is Lake Baikal in Russia. It contains about 20% of the surface freshwater. However, almost all of the world's freshwater is underground.
What is the largest freshwater lake in the world and how much water is inside it?
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the largest freshwater like in the world by volume. It holds 20% of the world's fresh surface water and is 1637 meters deep. Lake Superior between the United States and Canada is the largest freshwater lake by surface area and the third largest lake by volume.
What are the largest fresh water system in the world?
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What is the largest fresh water lake in the US not including the Great Lakes?
Lake Superior - It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and is the world's third-largest freshwater lake by volume.
How large is the largest lake?
The largest fresh water lake in the world is Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada. It has a surface area of 82,100 sq. km (31,700 sq. mi.).
What is the worlds largest body of fresh water?
Lake Baikal a lake of south-central Russia is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume. It contains about 5521 cubic miles of water (23,000 cubic kilometers), or approximately 20% of Earth's fresh surface water. This is a volume of water approximately equivalent to all five of the North American Great Lakes combined.The largest body of liquid surface fresh water on Earth by area is Lake Superior, between the north-central United States and southern Ontario, Canada.
What is the largest mass of fresh water in the world?
The great lakes
Where is the worlds largest supply of fresh water?
"The Antarctic Icecap is the largest supply of fresh water, representing nearly 2% of the world's total of fresh and salt water." Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004674.html
What are the largest group of fresh water lakes in the world?
the great lakes
Second largest fresh water lake in the world?
Lake Tanganyika
