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The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and at 27 million cubic km is the largest single mass of ice on Earth (90% of all the ice on Earth). This ice represents approximately 61% of all the fresh water on the Earth.

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Antarctica is a continent of approximately 14,000,000 sq km.

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Antarctica covers 10% of the earth's surface.

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Antarctica represents about 10 percent of the earth's surface.

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How much part of earth does Antarctica cover?

Antarctica covers about 10% of the earth's surface.


How much of earth's land is covered by Antarctica?

Antarctica is about 10% of earth's land mass.


How much of earth's surface is part of antarctica?

The continent of Antarctica covers about 10% of the earth's surface. It is about as large as USA and Mexico combined.


How much nitrogen is in Antarctica?

There is no more or less nitrogen in Antarctica than there is on any other continent on earth.


How much of the earth's ice is in Antarctica?

The Antarctic ice sheet contains about 90% of earth's ice.


How much more ice has the arctic over Antarctica?

There is much more ice covering Antarctica -- about 90% of the earth's store of ice -- than in the Arctic.


How much water in the Earth comes from antarctica?

Seventy one percent of earth's surface is water -- salt water. The ice sheet in Antarctica holds about seventy percent of earth's fresh water.


How much Of earth's water is in the?

It is estimated that about 70% of the earth's fresh water is frozen in Antarctica's ice sheet.


What percent of antarctica covers the earth?

Antarctica covers 10% of the earth's surface.


Much of antarctica is considered what type of blome?

There is no category of biome that covers Antarctica. Antarctica is the largest desert on earth (desert just means low humidity, not sand)


How much of the earths water is stored in Antarctica?

Antarctica's ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's fresh water.


How much does Antarctica cover earth surface?

Antarctica covers about 9% of the Earth's land surface, which is about 3% of the total surface, or about 14 million square kilometers. It is about as 1.5 times as big as the US.