Prelims MCQ · Geography
Consider the following statements:
- Approximately 71 per cent of planetary water is found in the oceans.
- Water outside the oceans is stored in glaciers, ice caps, groundwater, lakes, soil moisture, the atmosphere, streams and living organisms.
- Nearly 59 per cent of the water falling on land returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
- All precipitation not returned to the atmosphere becomes surface runoff; none enters the ground or becomes glacier ice.
Which of the statements given above are correct?