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What percentage of the Earth's surface is occupied by the continents and islands?
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∙ 14y ago
About 29%.
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Continent make up how many percentage of the earth's surface?
Continents make up about 29% of the Earth's surface.
What percentage of earth is forest?
Approximately 31% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests. This represents about 4 billion hectares of land.
Approximately what percentage of the Earth's surface is land?
About 29% of the Earth's surface is land, while the remaining 71% is covered by water.
What percentage of all the canals in the world covers the earth?
Approximately 0.1% of the Earth's surface is covered by canals.
How much do the continents move per year?
The continents move at different rates, but on average they move at about 2.5 centimeters per year. This movement is due to the shifting of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface.
What is the percentage of the earth's surface is occupied by Hong Kong?
0.0002%
What percentage of the earths surface do the continents represent?
30%
What percentage of the earth surface is covered by continents?
25 I guess.
What is the approximate percentage of Earths surface that is covered by continents?
Just under 30%
What is the approximate percentage of Earth's surface that is covered by continents?
Just under 30%
What percentage of all rock outcrops are on the continents?
Almost all. The word-definition answer would be the ratio of land classed as continents to that classed as islands, but geologically, most islands are on their nearest continent anyway. (Look at a map that shows the Continental Shelves). The few exceptions amount to a very tiny fraction of the total area, and these are surface-breaching volcanic sea-mounts rising from mid-ocean ridges and intra-plate vulcanism, like Hawaii and The Canaries.
What continents surface is similar to the Moon's surface?
Antarctica's surface is similar to that of the moon in that it is rocky.
What is divided into continents?
The land surface of the earth
How do continents affect surface currents?
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Idea that continents move on Earth's surface?
The idea that continents move slowly across the earth's surface is called the continental drift.
Idea that continents move slowly across earth's surface is called what?
The idea that continents move slowly across the earth's surface is called the continental drift.
Contrast the continents of Venus with those of Earth?
Venus only has two continents and they occupy about 8 percent of the surface. Earth's continents occupies about 25 percent of the surface. Venus also does not have any evidence of plate tectonics.
