Background For Teachers: Water covers 70% of Earth's surface and is found in different locations on Earth. The amount of water in the oceans, atmosphere, and on land is hard to comprehend. Approximately ninety percent (97%) of it is found in the oceans. The atmosphere holds less than 0.001%, about two percent (2%) is found frozen on Earth in glaciers, and one percent (1%) is freshwater found in lakes, rivers and groundwater. Annual precipitation amounts to 30 times the total water found in the atmosphere at any given time.
In this instance the nickname was for an unpredictable, wild individual, from the Middle English and Old French word ramage meaning wild, used of a hawk or other bird of prey living in the branches. The derivation is from the medieval Latin ramaticus, from ramus, branch.
A corsage was originally referred to as the bodice of a woman's dress. A bouquet of flowers was often worn in the center of the bodice and therefore the flowers took on the name corsage.. The word corsage is French, bouquet de corsage which means a bouquet of the bodice.. It could have been worn anywhere in the bust area generally meaning it could be tucked into the chest area of a woman's gown. The corsage has been worn throughout the years as a sign of respect and praise to the recipient.