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Glaciers cover nearly 10% of Earth's land surface.
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Where do glaciers depost the earth and rock as they move forward and advance?
Glaciers often push earth and rock from beneath themselves as they move forward. Many natural lakes were formed by glaciers carving the earth as they passed.
How much of earth fresh water is in icebergs and glaciers?
3%
Oceans contain 97 percent of the earth's water where is the majority of the rest of the water?
The rest of the water is groundwater(underground water) or frozen water(icebergs, glaciers). It could also be freshwater(streams,rivers)
Which of earth's spheres includes oceans groundwater lakes and glaciers?
Hydrosphere
In what ways do glaciers change earth's surface?
They smooth earths surface
Is glaciers light?
Glaciers are extremely heavy and massive. Glaciers cover about 10 percent of the Earth's land area and store around 75 percent of the world's freshwater.
The location of 2.05 percent of earth water?
ice caps and glaciers
Is 10 percent of earth's continents covered with lakes or rivers?
Glaciers
Do rivers cover 10 percent of the earth's continents?
No, glaciers is the correct answer
What percentage of Earth's water is found in glaciers?
About 1.7 percent (and falling, as many glaciers are melting due to climate change).
What percent of earth's fresh water is trapped in frozen icecaps and glaciers?
2%
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 percent of Earth's surface is covered by glaciers?
about 69% of Earths fresh water is in glaciers.
During the most recent ice age glaciers covered about what percent of the earth's land area?
30%
Do glaciers cover 70 percent of earths land?
No. Only a fairly small percentage of Earth's land is covered by glaciers. However, about 75% of the surface is covered by water.
What percent of earth's freshwater is frozen as glacial ice?
Over 90% of all the frshwater on the earth is frozen in the polar ice caps or glaciers.
How much of the earth is covered by freshwater?
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.
