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Which statement about Earth's water is false Most of Earth's water is salt water Water is necessary to all life forms on Earth?
Vast amounts of water are used by agriculture and industry.
All the water on earth is recycled. What does that mean about the water you drink?
It means that we might just be drinking Marie Antoinette's bath water! It is amazing that the earth recycles ALL of it's water.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The layer of the Earth that contains water and ice such as oceans, seas, rivers, vapors, underground water etc. The hydrosphere in physical geography describes the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.The hydrosphere (from Greek ὕδωρ - hudōr, "water"[1] and σφαῖρα - sphaira, "sphere"[2]) in physical geography describes the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.The total mass of the Earth's hydrosphere is about 1.4 × 1018 tonnes, which is about 0.023% of the Earth's total mass. About 20 × 1012 tonnes of this is in the Earth's atmosphere (the volume of one tonne of water is approximately 1 cubic metre). Approximately 75% of the Earth's surface, an area of some 361 million square kilometres (139.5 million square miles), is covered by ocean. The average salinity of the Earth's oceans is about 35 grams of salt per kilogram of sea water (3.5%)All the Earth's water.
Does most of earth's water contain salt?
Salt water accounts for 97.5% of all water on Earth. The oceans, seas and bays are salt water and represent 96.5% of all water on Earth. Another 1% exists as saline ground water. See related links.
Has all the water on earth been through the water cycle?
yes and no
