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Page 1: Chapter 4 – Earth’s Water · 2013-02-04 · How much of Earth is covered with water? An ocean is a large body of salt water. About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with

Chapter 4 – Earth’s Water

Lesson 1 – Earth: The Blue Planet

© Brent Coley 2009 | www.mrcoley.com

Page 2: Chapter 4 – Earth’s Water · 2013-02-04 · How much of Earth is covered with water? An ocean is a large body of salt water. About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with

How much of Earth is covered with water?

An ocean is a large body of saltwater.

About 70% of the Earth’ssurface is covered with oceans.

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How much of Earth is covered with water?

Oceans provide:food (fish, shrimp)fuel (oil from ocean bottom)recreation & transportation

The Pacific Ocean is the biggestand deepest ocean on Earth.

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How much of Earth is covered with water?

Fresh water contains little or nosalt.

Only 1% of Earth’s water isfresh water.

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How much of Earth is covered with water?

Most of Earth’s fresh water isfrozen in Antarctica.

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What makes oceans salty?Rain water falling on amountain is fresh.As it flows downhill, it picks upsalt from the soil and rocks.The water flows into tributaries(small streams or rivers).

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What makes oceans salty?Tributaries flow into a largerriver.

The river flows into the oceanand drops off a small amount ofsalt.

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What makes oceans salty?Some ocean water evaporates, changing from a liquid to a gas(water vapor).As the water vapor rises out of the ocean, the salt stays behind,making the remaining watersaltier.

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