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Why do we share water facts for you to learn ?
The more you know about water, the better equipped you will be to protect this vital resource.
Aquifers and subglacial lakes have stored fossil water for thousands of years!
Not all water that falls as rain ends up in streams, rivers, and oceans.
Glaciers are huge bodies of ice that “flow” like rivers!
Glaciers are thick, solid bodies of ice that can form on mountains. They form during ice ages and in the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
Coconuts “migrated” around the world using ocean water!
Coconuts are found in tropical locations
all over the world, but this wasn’t always
the case.
Permafrost is soil that is permanently frozen!
In the Arctic and Antarctic, much of the
water in the soil is trapped in permafrost,
or ground that has been at temperatures
below freezing (32°F or 0°C) for two years or longer.
Caves and sinkholes filled with fresh water are found in the middle of the jungle.
Cenotes are limestone caverns that are formed when rainwater trickles its way down through limestone bedrock.
There's a lake under the ice in Antarctica!
In East Antarctica, buried under 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) there lies a lake called Lake Vostok, which is now buried under ice near Russia's Vostok research station.
Waterspouts form from the cloud down, not from the water up!
A waterspout is a column of cloud-filled wind rotating over a body of water, descending from a cumulus cloud.
The Dead Sea is the saltiest body of water on Earth!
The Dead Sea has the lowest elevation on
the Earth at 1,407 feet (428.9 meters) below
sea level. It was created by a rift, similar to
Lake Baikal.
