- 97% of Earth's water is salt water found in oceans and seas, while only 3% is freshwater. Most freshwater is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets near the poles.
- Water cycles between the hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, rivers, atmosphere, and land) through the processes of evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation. This is known as the water or hydrologic cycle.
- The water cycle involves water evaporating from surfaces, transpiring from plants, condensing in clouds, and falling as precipitation to then collect and flow across the land and into oceans, only to repeat the cycle.