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.
The noun dirge comes from the Latin dirige, which means âdirect,â and is the beginning of a prayer that translates as âDirect my way in your sight, O Lord my God.â Dirge can still have a religious meaning, but it can also be any sad and mournful song, poem, or hymn composed or performed in memory of someone who has died.