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Out of all the water on Earth, only 2.75 percent is fresh water, including 2.05 percent frozen in glaciers, 0.68 percent as groundwater and 0.011 percent of it as surface water in lakes and rivers.
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What percentage on earth's surface is covered in glaciers?
it is 28% of the world was covered by glaciers. 28% of the earth was covered by Glaciers during the Ice Age.
What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered by lakes and rivers?
About 3% of the earths water is freshwater, most of it in pack ice, glaciers, and aquifers. Only about one-third percent is found in rivers and lakes. The largest freshwater lake by volume is Lake Baikal in Russia.
How much of the Earths surface is covered by the continents?
Approximately 30% of the Earth's surface is covered by land, the remaining 70% of the surface is covered by water.
How much area does ice occupy on earth?
Approximately 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the oceans.
How much of the Earth's surface is covered by ice?
10.4 percent of the earth is covered in ice (About 6,020,000 square miles).About 10.4 percent of the world's land surface, or approximately 6,020,000 square miles (15,600,000 square kilometers), is glaciated. Glaciated means permanently covered with ice. That ice takes the form of glaciers, ice sheets, or ice caps.one-tenthnot a lot!
How much of Earth's surface is covered with salty water that makes up the oceans and seas?
70% percent of the earth is covered in salt water, and 2.5% of freshwater but less then 1% of that fresh water is available for human use!!
How mush of the earth is covered by water?
More Than 70% but only 1% is freshwater
What is the amount of water that cover the earth?
About 70% of the Earth surface is covered with water, and most of that is the ocean. Only a small portion of the Earth's water is freshwater, which is found in lakes, rivers and groundwater. Freshwater is needed for drinking, farming, and washing.
How much of earth is covered by land?
30.2% of Earth is covered by land
How much of the earth is covered by the hydrosphere?
71% of the earth is covered in Hydrosphere.
How much of Earth's freshwater is found underground?
22%
About how much of Earth's freshwater is currently inaccessible?
80%
How much water is available as freshwater?
Of all the water on earth, , only 2.59% is avalible as freshwater
How much area of earth is covered by water?
71% of the earth is covered by water
Approximately how much of earth is covered by the hydrosphere?
75% of Earth is covered by the Hydrosphere
How much of the earth's surface is covered by Hydrosphere?
71% of the earth is covered in Hydrosphere.
How much freshwater is in earth lakes?
Not very much. Freshwater makes up only about 2% of the entire Earth.
