Mr Garland

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Water is a renewable environmental resource and is
essential to ALL life on earth!!!!!!!
Instructions!!!!!
 Use this resource to make your own notes!!!
 Use the headings from each slide the overall
heading is Water Resources.
 Watch out for instructions on slides and
complete all activities.
 There are more compulsory activities on your
Google classroom so keep up to date.
 For those of you who would like to dive deeper
(being a diver duck rather than a pond skater)
You can access Chapter 11 Water resources on
Google Classroom).
The Four Spheres
The earth consists of
four spheres:

 Biosphere (fauna and

flora).
 Lithosphere (earth’s
crust - rocks and
soils).
 Atmosphere (thin
layer of gases which
earth); and the
 Hydrosphere
Why is it relevant to us?
 From the simplest to the most complex of
organisms, every living thing on Earth needs water
to survive.
 In some organisms, up to 90% of their body weight
comes from water. Up to 60% of the human adult
body is water.
 About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-
covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of
all Earth's water.
 Water also exists in the air as water vapour, in
rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in the
ground as soil moisture and in aquifers, and even
in you and your dog.
Water Cycle - the water cycle enables renewal of the Earth’s
ground, surface and stored water sources. Copy diagram into your
book!
How the Water cycle works
 Watch the YouTube video below and then in your own
words explain how the water cycle works:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaKf5ATmvho
 The definitions provided in this video will assist you in
your glossary activity at the end of this presentation.
 Critical thinking – what things may impact upon the
water cycle and water availability?
 Different forms of Water
 Ground Water – found below the earth’s surface. Rain and water from the rivers travels through
the ground where it is stored between grains of soil and rock. It moves through aquifers and
connects with river systems.
 Green Water – is precipitation such as rain which is stored in the soil and does not become
ground water or run off into the rivers.
 Blue Water - surface water including all the fresh water on the surface e.g. lakes, rivers,
streams and water stored in aquifers (ground water) NOT the oceans or seas these are SALT
 Grey Water - Waste water – water used to dilute pollutants. Comes from factories, households.
Not really for drinking but people use it on their gardens.

 Salt Water – makes up 97% of the earth’s water. Oceans have about 5 teaspoons of salt per litre.
The salt makes the water denser so it needs to be colder than fresh water to freeze.

 Ice –Solid water – what happens when water freezes – it becomes lighter as it freezes and can
float e.g. icebergs

 Water Vapour – is the gaseous state of water and is essential to our weather and climate. Created
mostly be evaporation. All water vapour that evaporates from the earth returns as some form
of precipitation (rain, hail, snow et cetera).
 Organising your knowledge
In your Geography books copy and complete the following graphic
organiser comparing the seven main forms of fresh water.

Types of fresh Ground Soil Surface Waste Salt Ice Water

water -water moisture water water water vapour
(Green (blue (grey
water) water) water)
Description
Example
Glossary Work:
 At the back of your Geography book – create a
Glossary Page – Title Water in the World Glossary
 resource; renewable; aquifer; glacier; condensation;
precipitation; sublimation; hydrosphere; troposphere;
infiltration; pollutants; distribution; non-renewable;
transpiration; evaporation.
 You are to look these words up – write down each
definition and learn how to spell them and what they
mean. Remember to make sure your definitions relate
to water !!
 You will be tested on this at the end of Week 8.
Research Task
 Select a state or territory
water corporation website.
Find out where the state or
territory obtains its water
for agriculture, industrial or
domestic use. Also identify
what type of water source
these are (e.g.
groundwater) and how a
balance is achieved so no
single source is depleted.