2. What percent of the total \"water on the continents\" is contained in the for

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2. What percent of the total "water on the continents" is contained in the form of ice sheets/caps/glaciers? 3. What percent of the total "water on the continents" is contained in the form of groundwater? 4. Calculate the percent of storage in world oceans if climate change resulted in a doubling of the volume of water stored in icesheets/caps/glaciers? is the world warming or cooling in this hypothetical scenerio? 5. Freshwater drinking supplies are derived primarily from either rivers or groundwater. Which storage compartment represents the greatest drinking water resource on the planet? 6. Describe the differences between precipitation and evaporation over land and over water.

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2)Presently, 10 percent of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice, including glaciers, ice caps, and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.

3) 1.69 is the percentage of the total water on continents contained in the form of groundwater in which 0.93 is saline groundwater, 0.76 is fresh groundwater

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