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3 years ago

How much water is stored in polar ice caps glaciers and permanent snow

Physics

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antoniya [11.8K]3 years ago

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Answer:

1.7% is stored in the polar icecaps, glaciers, and permanent snow

Explanation:

70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water; However, only a small percentage, 0.025%, is suitable for human consumption. A limited resource whose demand, according to the forecasts of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), will skyrocket up to 55% globally between 2000 and 2050.

In the attached infographic we observe that the total volume of water on Earth is 1,386 million cubic kilometers, of which<em> </em><u>1.7% is forming polar ice, cap glaciers and permanent snow</u>. 1,338 million cubic kilometers of that water is in seas and oceans, that is, 96.5% is in seas and oceans, that is, it is salt water that cannot be drunk.

Only 3.5% of the Earth's water is fresh, but of this percentage, only 1% of the Earth's fresh water flows through the river basins in the form of streams and rivers.

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3 years ago

A red cross helicopter takes off from headquarters and flies 120 km at 70 degrees south of west. There it drops off some relief

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Suppose the HQ is at the origin (x = 0, y = 0)

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$y_1 = -120sin70^o = -112.763 km$

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In other words, the mass and the charge are balanced on both sides of the reaction.

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