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The Earth's surface is covered by approximately 70 percent salt water. The remaining 30 percent consists of ice and land where a majority of the population exists.

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What prtage of the earth is cover in salt water?

70%


What does the salt water cover nearly on three-fourths of the earth?

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What is the salt water that covers about three quarters of the earth surface called?

The salt water that covers about three-quarters of the Earth's surface is called the ocean.


What is a large body of salt water that surrounds a continent is called?

An ocean is a large body of salt water that surrounds a continent. Oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface.


Why is most water salt water?

Most of Earth's water is salt water because it comes from oceans, which cover about 71% of the planet's surface. Salt water in the oceans is created through a process called erosion, where minerals on land dissolve into water and are carried to the ocean.


How much percent is the Earth's salt water?

About 97% of the Earth's water is salt water found in oceans and seas.


Why is most of Earth's water is salt water?

because the salt


How many percent of earth covered by water?

70% of the Earth's surface is covered in salt water. Liquid fresh water covers less than 1% of the Earth


Why is the earth called salt water planet?

because there is salt water on it


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What type of body of water covers much of earth's surface?

All of the oceans cover most of our planet Earth. they cover 75% of the world!


What is the largest body of salt water that cover earth?

The oceans. If they are counted as one body the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans are easily the largest bodies of salt water on Earth. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the oceans.