Question

What are examples of freshwater?
A) Lakes, streams, rivers, and glaciers
B) Seawater
C) Ocean water
D) Pacific Ocean water

Answer 1

Hint: Freshwater can be termed as naturally occurring water that can be in liquid or solid form(ice), that does not contain any dissolved solid particles or salts. Groundwater can be considered the largest source of many freshwater lakes. Only $3\% $ if the total water on the earth Is freshwater.

Complete answer:
The groundwater is a source of freshwater and this groundwater makes maximum lakes on the earth's surface, hence lakes can be considered as a freshwater source. Similarly, streams are formed due to the action of gravity, when the precipitation falls some are absorbed but some amount starts to downhill and these runoff water compiles to form a stream, hence it is also a fresh water source, rivers are obtained from the glaciers that are present on the mountain top and it ends into the oceans and glaciers can be called as the solid form of freshwater, so both river and glacier are freshwater forms, hence the option A is the correct answer.

 Sea is the water body located in the places where the ocean and land mixes and are smaller than the ocean, they have a high concentration of dissolved salts and hence cannot be termed as a freshwater source, hence option B is an incorrect option.

Oceans are the large forms of sea and also have a high concentration of salt, hence cannot be considered freshwater, so option C is incorrect.

The Pacific ocean also contains salt in its water and hence is not considered as freshwater, hence option D is incorrect.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: The salinity of the water is $35$ parts per thousand and this amount is almost similar in the case of ocean water, the salinity of the seawater is because of the washing of the minerals into the sea from the land by the action of rain. Among all the oceans and sea, the dead sea contains the highest concentration of salt in its water.