questions from geoactive book

1. What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?

• The worlds supply of water's percentage is 2.5
  

1. Where is the worlds supply of fresh water found?

• The world's supply of fresh water is found in soil, ground water, rivers, lakes and in the form of ice.
  

1. Even though the supply of fresh water is abundant is it still is a problem. Why?

• Because some places, people demand for more People and so they get more water and then the people who don't complaint but still really need it more then the demanding people, their amount of water distributed to them gets less and less.
  

1. Observe the map of world average annual precipitation (opposite)

a) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the western to the eastern tip of Africa.

• The rainfall gets less and less.

b) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the western to the eastern tip of Australia along the tropic of Capricorn.

• It is like africa but more sutained. as in its rains alot then slowly it becomes less.

5. Observe the map above of water availability per person.

a) Which parts of the world appear to have a large amount of water available per person

• South America, half of north America, half of Asia, a little bit of africa and some of Europe.

b) Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person.

• Africa and Asia

6. Observe the diagram of water used.

a) What are the main uses of water

• Agircultural

b) which uses have increased the most over the last century

• industrial