States of Water and How They're Stored On Earth

Which form of water is a...

Glacier — a slow-moving mass of ice flowing over land in very high and/or very cold areas.

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

Which form of water is...?

Clouds — water that has condensed into droplets or ice particles that are visible and suspended in the atmosphere.

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

Which form of water is...

Water vapour — water vapour from power stations results from water used to cool the heated turbines.

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

Which form of water is...?

Rain — water droplets too heavy to remain suspended that fall to the earth.

• solid

• Liquid

• Gas

True or False: water covers 70 per cent of the Earth.

• True

• False

True or False: 97 per cent of water on the Earth is fresh water.

• True

• False

An underground spring is water stored as...

• Surface water

• Ground Water

An artisan basin is water stored as...

• Surface water

• Ground Water

River — a large, natural stream of surface water that flows along a channel into a sea, a lake or another river.

• Ground water

• Surface water

Dam — a human-made structure used to store large quantities of water by restricting the flow of a river or stream.

• Surface Water

• Ground Water