Water Stores

• The water cycle is the continuous movement of water between the Earth's surface, atmosphere, and oceans.
• Hydrosphere: all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds.
• Hydrosphere: oceans hold the vast majority of all water on Earth (96.5%)
• Hydrosphere: oceans supply about 90% of the evaporated water that goes into the water cycle.
• Atmosphere: smallest store of water (0.001%) of Earth’s total water- main vector that moves water around the globe
• Cryosphere: The part of the Earth that is covered by ice or snow.
• Cryosphere: 1.7% of all water on Earth
• Lithosphere: 1.7% of all water on Earth is stored in the lithosphere