{"id":931,"date":"2023-06-18T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=931"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:48:05","slug":"q-with-reference-to-the-water-on-the-planet-earth-consider-the-following-statements-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-with-reference-to-the-water-on-the-planet-earth-consider-the-following-statements-2","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0With reference to the water on the planet Earth, consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. The amount of water in the rivers and lakes is&nbsp;<strong>more than<\/strong>&nbsp;the amount of groundwater.<br>2. The amount of water In polar ice caps and glaciers is more than the amount of groundwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Distribution of water on the surface of the earth:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Reservoir<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Percentage of the total<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Oceans<\/td><td>97.25<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ice caps and glaciers<\/td><td>2.05<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Groundwater<\/td><td>0.68<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lakes<\/td><td>0.01<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Soil moisture<\/td><td>0.005<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Atmosphere<\/td><td>0.001<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Streams and Rivers<\/td><td>0.0001<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Biosphere<\/td><td>0.00004<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Water in groundwater is 0.62%<\/strong>&nbsp;while in&nbsp;<strong>lakes and rivers it is 0.008 (Salt lakes) + 0.009(freshwater lakes) + 0.0001(rivers)=0.0171.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water in&nbsp;<strong>polar ice caps and glaciers is 2%&nbsp;<\/strong>while in&nbsp;<strong>groundwater it is 0.62%<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Earth\u2019s surface is covered with 29% of land and 71% of water<\/strong>. Out of 71% of water,&nbsp;<strong>97% of water is saltwater which is present in oceans, seas, and saltwater lakes.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remaining&nbsp;<strong>3% of water present on the land is freshwater which is present in the form of glaciers, ice caps, groundwater, lakes, rivers, and in the atmosphere as water vapor<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Out of 3% of freshwater, 2.5% of the earth\u2019s freshwater cannot be used because it is locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted, or lies too far under the earth\u2019s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Of&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>total&nbsp;freshwater,<\/strong>&nbsp;69% resides in glaciers<strong>, 30% underground<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>and less than 1% is located in lakes, rivers, and swamps.&nbsp;Thus, t<\/strong>he amount of water in rivers and lakes is&nbsp;<strong>less<\/strong>&nbsp;than amount of groundwater.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_98d4f5-04 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_98d4f5-04 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_98d4f5-04\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The amount of water in the rivers and lakes is&nbsp;more than&nbsp;the amount of groundwater.2. The amount of water In polar ice caps and glaciers is more than the amount of groundwater. Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? Answer: (b) 2 only Distribution of water on the surface of the earth: Reservoir Percentage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[52],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-52"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":52,"label":"2021"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}