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TITLE : How Seawater Becomes Salty

GENERAL STATEMENT :

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, and 97% of that is salty seawater. Only 3%

of our planet’s water is fresh such as water in rivers, lake, and streams. This fresh water plays a

big role in explaining how the sea becomes salty. Water moves around our planet in a cycle

powered by the sun: from the sea, to the sky, to the land and then back to the sea.

EXPLANATION :

When the sun heats the water in the sea, it changes into gas called water vapour and rises into

the air, through a process called evaporation. After that, the water vapour turns back into liquid

water while floating in the air, forming clouds through a process called condensation. Then this

water eventually falls from the clouds in the sky as rain, sleet, hail or snow in which the process

is also called precipitation. When these flows into streams and rivers, and eventually makes its

way back to the sea.