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WC1 - water stores - Coggle Diagram
WC1 - water stores
97% of water stores in oceans
dominate the amount of available water.
onlky 5% of oceans have been explored
oceans contain dissolved salts, allowing it to stay liquid below 0
oceans are alkaline. The PH has fallen due to the increase in carbon
3% freshwater
Cryosphere
Ice Sheets
Permafrost
Sea Ice
Ice caps
Alpine Glaciers
Atmosphere
Mainly water vapour
Ice Crystals
some liquid water ( cloud & rain droplets)
Terrestrial features
surface water
rivers, lakes, ponds
Biological water
water stored in all the biomass
Soil water
Held together with air in unsaturated
upper weathered layers of the earth
Ground water
collects underground (pore spaces of rock)