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--- |\n| densest   |\n| eaves   |\n| expanse   |\n| moisture   |\n| ventured   |\n\nWord count:1,453  \nNote:The total word count includes words in the running text and headings only.Numerals and words in chapter titles,captions,labels,diagrams,charts,graphs,sidebars,and extra features are not included.  \nby Kathleen Cox  \nPEARSON  \nScott  \nForesman  \nEditorial Offices:Glenview,Ilinois·Parsippany,New Jersey·New York,New YorkSales Offices:Needham,Massachusetts·Duluth,Georgia·Glenview,IllinoisCoppell,Texas·Ontario,California·Mesa,Arizona  \nEvery effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit forphotographic material.The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges tocorrect errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.  \nUnless otherwise acknowledged,all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman,a division of Pearson Education.  \nPhoto locators denoted as follows:Top(T),Center (C),Bottom(B),Left(L),Right(R),Background(Bkgd)  \nOpener OPatrick Ward/Corbis;1 OKarl Ammann/Corbis;3 OWayne Lawler;Ecoscene/Corbis;4 CLuciano Corbella/DK Images;8 Susan J.Carlson;11 CSean Sexton Collection/Corbis;12 OPatrick Ward/Corbis;14 OChris Hellier/Corbis;16(Bkgd)ONevada Wier/Corbis;18(B)◎Paul Almasy/Corbis;19 OKarl Ammann/Corbis;20 Corbis  \nISBN:0-328-13658-1  \nCopyright Pearson Education,Inc.  \nAll Rights Reserved.Printed in the United States of America.This publication isprotected by Copyright,and permission should be obtained from the publisherprior to any prohibited reproduction,storage in a retrieval system,or transmissionin any form by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orlikewise.For information regarding permission(s),write to:Permissions Department,Scott Foresman,1900 East Lake Avenue,Glenview,IIlinois 60025.  \n8910 VOG114131211100908  \n# Earth's Water Supply\n\nIt is easy to take the Earth's supply of water forgranted.Huge oceans send wave after wave of  \npounding water against thousands of miles of shoreline.Shimmering rivers wind through cities and villages  \naround the world.Rain and snow fall all over the planetyear after year.Most of all,whenever we turn on a faucetinside our home to cook or wash our hands,we alwaysseem to have more than enough water.  \nWhen we see so much water around us,it is hard tobelieve that the Earth's supply of fresh water is limited.  \n# The Water Cycle\n\nWater collects in the Earth's lakes,rivers,and oceans.Then this moisture evaporates.It changes to vapor,a gasthat goes into the air.  \nThe vapor travels higher in the atmosphere,wherethe air is colder.The vapor gets colder and condenses,orturns into tiny droplets of water.  \nAll living things depend on the Earth's water cycle to stay alive.  \nMillions of these droplets come together and form acloud.When a cloud becomes too heavy,the water fallsback down to Earth as rain,sleet,hail,or snow,which areall forms of precipitation.  \nWhen it lands on the ground,the precipitation seepsinto the soil,where it helps plants to grow.It also goes intooceans,lakes,and rivers.Then the water cycle begins again.  \nThe Rivers of Africa  \nAfrica has three of the world's longestrivers:the Nile River,the Congo River,andthe Niger River.It also has the ZambeziRiver.  \nThe rain that falls each year affectsthese rivers.If there is no rain for weeksor months,the water level goes down.More and more of the river bank isexposed,showing how the volume ofwater in the river is decreasing.  \nAbout 70 percent of all Africans arefarmers.The rain and the nearby riversprovide the water for their crops.Whenwater is scarce,the farmers lose theircrops,and many of them go hungry.  \nATLANTICOCEAN  \nMOROWESTERNSAHARATropic ofCancer  \nMAURITANIASENEGALGAMBIA  \nBGUINEABISSAUGUINEA2SIERRAIVORLEONECOASLIBERIAGULFEquator  \nATLAN7OCEANTropic ofCapricorn","cbCaiihlPa2IviJx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiihlPa2IviJx","pdf",2808245,28,"English","# Earth's Water Supply\n# The Water Cycle\n## The Rivers of 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