Where can we find freshwater? Identify the different freshwater sources from the images given below and write their names. (Eight pictures around the words ‘Sources of Water’.) Sources of Water The eight pictures printed around the words “Sources of Water” on page 5, redrawn here as simple sketches.

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Look at the eight pictures around the words Sources of Water. Here is each one, read row by row, left to right.

Where the picture is	What the picture shows	Name to write
Top row, left	A small round water body with grass and reeds all around it	Pond
Top row, middle	Big waves rolling onto a sandy beach	Sea (ocean)
Top row, right	Blocks of ice floating in very cold water	Glacier / ice cap
Middle row, left	Bare mountains with still water in front of them	Lake
Middle row, right	A cut through the ground — soil on top, then a layer of water, then pebbles	Groundwater
Bottom row, left	A winding stream of water running across green land	River
Bottom row, middle	A round brick structure with a rope and a bucket	Well
Bottom row, right	A dark cloud with drops falling from it	Rain

One picture is different from the rest. The picture in the top middle is the sea. Sea water is salty. So it is not a source of freshwater. All the other seven are.

Why these are freshwater sources: Ponds, lakes and rivers hold water on the surface of the land. Glaciers and ice caps hold freshwater in solid form, as ice. Rain brings freshwater down from the clouds. Wells bring up groundwater. And groundwater itself is rain that soaked into the soil and got stored below.

Sort them into three groups: water on the land — pond, lake, river; water under the land — groundwater, well; water from the sky and in frozen form — rain, glacier.

NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 1 Sources of Water — Activity 1