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In lakes and oceans, such as the Atlantic Ocean.
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How many does the earth cover with salt water?
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.
How does the amount of fresh water compare to the amount of salt water on the Earth?
Approximately 97% of the Earth's water is salt water, found in oceans and seas. Only about 3% of the Earth's water is fresh water, with the majority of that locked in ice caps and glaciers.
Vast majority of the world's water is?
Salt Water.
How much percent is the Earth's salt water?
About 97% of the Earth's water is salt water found in oceans and seas.
How much percent of water is salt water?
Estimates are that 97% of the water on earth is salt water or brackish water, the majority of it being in the oceans, seas, and bays. About 2% of the freshwater is frozen in glaciers. And less than 1% of the freshwater is in lakes, rivers, streams, and potable groundwater. See Links.
Why is most of Earth's water is salt water?
because the salt
Is it true that most of Earth's water is salt water?
Most of the water on Earth (other than in mineral hydrates) is saltwater, about 97% of it. Oceans are salt water. The other 3% is fresh water, but 67% of that fresh water is in the ice caps. That only leaves about 1% of the total water as usable fresh water. But that is still a vast amount of water, enough to fill aquifers, streams, rivers, and lakes.
Why is the earth called salt water planet?
because there is salt water on it
What percent of water on earth is fresh water?
Around 3% of water on earth is fresh water
What is most salt water?
Most of the Earth's salt water is found in the oceans, which cover about 71% of the planet's surface. The average salinity of ocean water is around 3.5%, primarily due to the presence of dissolved salts, predominantly sodium chloride. Additionally, salt water can also be found in seas, estuaries, and some salt lakes, but the vast majority resides in the oceans.
Is most of the water on the Earth salty?
Most of the water on earth is salt water.
Most water on earth is what?
salt water
