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Biology

Project
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Water: A Wonder Liquid
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 Water occupies a very large area of the Earth’s surface


and is also found underground. Some amount of water
exists in the form of water vapour in the atmosphere.
 Most of the water on Earth’s surface is found in seas and
oceans and is saline.
 Fresh water is found frozen in the ice-caps at the two
poles and on snow-covered mountains.
 The underground water and the water in rivers, lakes and
ponds is also fresh. However, the availability of fresh
water varies from place to place.
 Water is one of the major resources which determine life
on land
Distribution Of Water
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🐠 More than 97% of the total water on the Earth’s surface is


saline. So, it does not support terrestrial life forms due to high
salt concentration.
🐠 Out of the total freshwater resource present on the Earth
surface, 70% is in the form of ice caps and permanent snow
cover in mountainous regions, the Antarctic and arctic
regions.
🐠 Around 30% of the total fresh water is stored underground in
the form of ground water.
🐠Fresh water lakes and rivers contain around 0.3% of the total
fresh water
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Why is water so necessary?


All cellular
processes take place in a water medium. All
the reactions that take place within our body
and within the cells occur between
substances that are dissolved in water.
Substances are also transported from one
part of the body to the other in a dissolved
form. Hence, organisms need to maintain the
level of water within their bodies in order to
stay alive.
2.
Water Pollution
Water pollution refers to the contamination
of water bodies, such as rivers, lakes, oceans,
and groundwater, by harmful substances.
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We use the term water-pollution to cover the following effects:
1. The addition of undesirable substances to water-bodies. These
substances could be the fertilisers and pesticides used in
farming or they could be poisonous substances, like mercury
salts which are used by paper-industries. These could also be
disease-causing organisms, like the bacteria which cause
cholera.

2. The removal of desirable substances from water-bodies.


Dissolved oxygen is used by the animals and plants that live in
water. Any change that reduces the amount of this dissolved
oxygen would adversely affect these aquatic organisms. Other
nutrients could also be depleted from the water bodies.

3. A change in temperature. Aquatic organisms are used to a


certain range of temperature in the water-body where they live,
and a sudden marked change in this temperature would be
dangerous for them or affect their breeding. The eggs and larvae
of various animals are particularly susceptible to temperature
changes.
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Thank You
Devanandhu Raju N
IX-C
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