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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The salt water that covers about three-quarters of the Earth's surface is called the ocean.
An ocean is a large body of salt water that surrounds a continent. Oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface.
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.
About 97% of the Earth's water is salt water found in oceans and seas.
because the salt
70% of the Earth's surface is covered in salt water. Liquid fresh water covers less than 1% of the Earth
because there is salt water on it
How many square feet will a ton of salt cover?
All of the oceans cover most of our planet Earth. they cover 75% of the world!
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.