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Why humans occupy just a fraction of the surface area of the earth?
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∙ 13y ago
because only 1/5 of the surface area of the world is actually habitable, due to 4/5's of the surface area being covered in water.
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∙ 13y ago
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Half of the earth's surface?
Half of the Earth's surface is called a hemisphere.
What is between the surface of the earth and the center of the earth?
The Earth's mantle.
What is one third of the earth surface?
"Land". 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by sea. If you are looking for surface numbers: the total Earth surface is 510 million square kilometers, so 1/3 would be 168 million square kilometers.
What percent of the earth's land area does North America cover?
North America covers 16.3% of the Earth's surface.
What is divided into continents?
The land surface of the earth
How much area does ice occupy on earth?
Approximately 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the oceans.
Do human change Earth's surface?
Humans change the earth's surface by gardening.
What fraction on earth does water cover?
71% of Earth's surface
What percentage of earth is made of rivers?
A negligible percentage, significantly less than 1%. Rivers occur only of the surface of the earth, around 70% of which is oceans. Rivers occupy a tine proportion of the remaining surface. Compared to the radius of the earth their depth is negligible so that they occupy a minuscule proportion of the earth's volume.
What fraction of the earth's surface is coverd in water?
75%
How will the earth be in a 100 years?
we would be living in a robotic world...........robots will occupy the humans work
How much does the oceans cover the earth surface in fraction?
3/4 of earth's surface is covered by water bodies. Earth's surface mainly contain water.
How much of the Earth does the desert biome occupy?
Deserts, by definition, cover 14% of the earth's land area. Non-arable land, however, makes up a large percentage.
The albedo of the earth's surface is the fraction of solar radiation that is?
reflected.
What fraction of earth gravity the moons gravity?
An object on the Moon's surface weighs 16.55% as much as the same object weighs when it's on the Earth's surface. The fraction is roughly 1/6.
What fraction of earth's gravity is moons gravity?
An object on the Moon's surface weighs 16.55% as much as the same object weighs when it's on the Earth's surface. The fraction is roughly 1/6.
What is the earth's major climate region?
Tropical climates occupy about 36% of Earth's surface, including both land and oceans areas.
