That's what it says in The Bible that the whole earth was covered in water. The evidence is somewhat conflicting.
The many and various flood legends in the many people groups around the world, although different also seem to indicate a cultural memory of such an event. This includes desert-dwelling people.
snowball earth
It was not exactly covered in all ice, parts we covered in snow and the whole earth was not all land, parts were water
According to the Biblical account, the floodwaters covered the entire earth, and the Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The exact distance traveled by the Ark during the flood is not specified in the text, so it is difficult to determine its actual distance.
During the Ice Age, approximately 30 of the Earth's surface was covered in ice.
The previous answer was incorrect. NOW the Earth's surface is covered with ice, but during the most recent ice age, NEARLY 30% of the Earth was covered by ice!I'm a little bold
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow on the Moon. The Earth's shadow has two parts: the outer penumbra and the inner umbra. When the Moon passes through the umbra, it is completely covered by Earth's shadow, leading to a total lunar eclipse.
Ice.
About 71%
99.9999%. Some of those rocks are under water, but otherwise, the entire Earth is covered with rock, except in the few places where the crust is broken and liquid magma is flowing out.
During the most recent ice age, glaciers covered about 30% of the Earth's land area.
Warm, shallow seas covered much of Earth's surface during early Paleozoic time.
Warm, shallow seas covered much of Earth's surface during early Paleozoic time.