97 percent of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slightly over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps. The remaining unfrozen freshwater is found mainly as groundwater, with only a small fraction present above ground or in the air.
Define distress: seizure and detention of the goods of another as pledge or to obtain satisfaction of a claim by the sale ofâ¦ â distress in a sentence seizure and detention of the goods of another as pledge or to obtain satisfaction of a claim by the sale of the goods seizedâ¦
The previously mentioned Dr. Lazarus (building on Dr. Selye's work) suggested that there is a difference between eustress, which is a term for positive stress, and distress, which refers to negative stress. In daily life, we often use the term stress to describe negative situations.