Found a fun website by ContestPatti and couldn't resist sharing her Earth Day post on water!
"As earth day approaches the kids and I are focusing our home learning on the natural world. We have discovered so many interesting facts and figures and we thought we would share them with you, our fellow home learners! So here you go –
- The world has a total of 1,3 billion cubic kilometers (332 million cubic miles) of water.
- Scooped up, all of that water would form a ball just 1, 384 km (860 miles) wide.
- Nearly 97% of the worlds water is in the oceans.
- The Pacific Ocean contains more water than all of the world's other oceans and seas together.
- 71% of the planets surface is covered in water leaving just 29% of the surface as land.
- Only 2.5% of all the water on Earth is fresh water.
- For every bathtub full of seawater on Earth, there are just 4 teaspoons of freshwater.
- Most fresh water is locked up in glaciers and the ice caps. Less than 1% of all the Earths water is fresh & liquid.
- Permafrost (underground ice) and liquid groundwater (water in rocks and soil) make 1.7% of the worlds total water.
- The average depth of the ocean is 4,300m (14,000 Feet) but the deepest point at Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, is 11,030 m (36,200 feet)
- Humans have explored less than 10% of the ocean.
- Fewer people have travelled to the deepest parts of the ocean than have travelled into space.
- If all of the world's ice melted the sea level would rise by 70m (230 feet).
- The ice over Antarctica is an average of 1, 830 m (6,000 feet) and in some places it is more than twice as deep 4,776 m (15,670 feet)."
