Geo Active Book

1.What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?
A: 2.5 per cent

2.Where is the world's supply of fresh water found?
A: 2% is found in ice, 0.49% is found in ground and soil, and 0.01% is found in the atmosphere, rivers and lakes


3.Even though the supply of fresh water is abudant it is still a problem. Why?
A: Because the fresh water on the earth is getting less because of run off


4.Observe the map of world average annual precipitation (opposite)
(a) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the southern to the northern
tip of Africa.
A: In northern tip, it will rain more than southern tip

(b) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from western to the eastern tip of
Australia along the Tropic of Capricone.
A: It will rain often in eastern tip


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?
A: South America

(b) Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person?
A: Europe

6. Observe the diagram of water use
(a) What are the main uses of water?
A: Water is mainly used for Agricultural

(b) Which uses have increased the most over the last century?
A: