Distribution and Availability of Usable Water
The World's Water
"Water, Water, Everywhere...." You've heard the phrase, and for water, it really is true. Earth's water is (almost) everywhere: above the Earth in the air and clouds, on the Earth as rivers, oceans, ice, plants, and inside the Earth in the top few miles of the ground. |
| Taken from: earth.rice.edu/ |
The globe image below, is meant to show how much actual water exists, as compared to the total size of the Earth. The spheres look small because it is compared to the size of the whole globe. What it show is that Earth's water resides in a very thin slice all around the Earth's surface.
(Taken from http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html)
All Earth's water, liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers
Spheres showing:
- (1) All water (sphere over western U.S., 860 miles = 1,384km. in diameter)
- (2) Fresh liquid water in the ground, lakes, swamps, and rivers (sphere over Kentucky, 169.5 miles = 273km. in diameter), and
- (3) Fresh-water lakes and rivers (sphere over Georgia, 34.9 miles = 56km in diameter).
Credit: Howard Perlman, USGS; globe illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (©); Adam Nieman.
Informational Videos:
Distribution of Earth Water (Karen Slaton /Standard YouTube License)
Distribution of Water n Earth (Sience Earth / Standard YouTube License)
Group 1: Groundwater
What is Groundwater? (Quest Science / YouTube)
It's Called Groundwater (By ProvinceofBC / YouTube)
Groundwater Information
Take a look at: A Water Well
The Groundwater Story Animation (Song by King County / YouTube)
Take a look at: A Water Well
The Groundwater Story Animation (Song by King County / YouTube)
Group 2: Ice Caps, Glaciers, Lakes and Rivers
What are Glaciers? (MocomiKids / YouTube)
How a glacier forms? (Daft Colt / YouTube)
Creation of a Glacial Ice and Glacial Movement (Gegkyle / YouTube)
How Glaciers Move (study.com)
The Effect of Ice Age Glaciers (study.com)
Glacier Movement (study.com)
Group 3: Availability of Usable Water Around the World
Fresh Water Scarcity (Ted-Ed / YouTube)
Where We Get Our Fresh Water (Ted-Ed / YouTube)
World Water Day: Animated Short
The World Water Crisis (Ilustrated Ideas's Channel / YouTube)
Water Facts and Statistics (The Infographics Show / YouTube)
The Global Water Crisis (Take Part (YouTube)
Millions Lack Safe Water
Lack of Water Around the World (Wikipedia)
Goup 4: Availability of Usable Water in Peru
Where We Get Our Fresh Water (Ted-Ed / YouTube)
World Water Day: Animated Short
The World Water Crisis (Ilustrated Ideas's Channel / YouTube)
Water Facts and Statistics (The Infographics Show / YouTube)
The Global Water Crisis (Take Part (YouTube)
Millions Lack Safe Water
Lack of Water Around the World (Wikipedia)
Goup 4: Availability of Usable Water in Peru
El Derroche en la Escasez - El Comercio 31/Mayo/2015
El Uso del Agua en Lima - El Comercio - 3/Junio/2015
Situación del Agua en el Peru (Ministerio del Ambiente)
Fresh Water in Lima - Agua Potable en Lima
El Uso del Agua en Lima - El Comercio - 3/Junio/2015
Situación del Agua en el Peru (Ministerio del Ambiente)
Fresh Water in Lima - Agua Potable en Lima
ACTIVITY
- Talk to your group members and choose a leader and a secretary.
- Read together the group questionary and write your name next to the question picked.
- Every group member must answer at least 1 question on the list.
- Fill in your index card according to the model.
- When finish, check the information with an ICT teacher.
- If your answers are ok you can help any other student on your group.
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| Index card: UoI Water |
When all the group is ready, start working your class wall, respect the room in the wall for your group information. Attach to your post a picture, a link or a video related to your answer.
