What are the different forms of water? How
Water on the earth remains constant?
the total amount of
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1.The water circulated in water cycle takes three different forms – solid, liquid and gaseous. The solid form of water – ice, is found at the poles of the earth, the snow covered mountains and the glaciers. The liquid form is present in the rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans.
2.The amount of water on the Earth is constant, or nearly so. Actually, the amount is increasing ever so slightly due to volcanic eruptions expelling water vapor into the atmosphere, but, for all practical purposes, the amount of water (as a gas, liquid and as snow and ice) can be considered to be constant.
A1) Water is present in oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, ice caps, as groundwater and in the atmosphere. Water exists in different forms. On the earth's surface, there are three different forms of water namely solid, liquid and gaseous.
A2) Water evaporates from the surface of the Earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow, falls as precipitation, and then collects on land in the oceans, rivers, lakes, and soil, and the cycle begins again. Well, that's why the amount of water on Earth remains constant.