How many % of the earth surface consists of water??

Question

I was just sitting in the bus overhearing a conversation.. and one person told the other that of all the water on earth only 3% is freshwater and all the rest is salt.. then I wondered how much of the earth surface consists of water??

Answer 1

71%
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Answer 2

About 70%

Answer 3

Recent scientific expiditions and calculation result in showing that water covers 87% of the earth, mind you, with global warming, this number will increase of the next millions to well, hundreds of years, but the peeps on the bus were rite, about 3% of this water is fresh and that is mainly located in the ice caps and in the ground, called groundwater. TRUST ME

Answer 4

75 % of the earth contains fresh and salt water the other 35% is land. that means 75-3 = 72 which means that 72% is salt water and 3% is fresh water.

Answer 5

Around 70%

Answer 6

just a note of explanation. I don't think global warming affects the total because I believe the polar icecaps are covered in that 70% to 75% figure anybody disagree?

Answer 7

properly, Pangea grew to become into the call of the 1st continent. that's beleived to have been the only continent/land mass on the time, even with the incontrovertible fact that it quite is a threat that the water quantity grew to become into much less back then, and extra of it would have been uncovered. it is likewise a threat that a number of what grew to become into floor land back then has "recycled" into the water, or maybe cycled back into magma as issues shifted around. recently it does not artwork like that particularly as a lot.. extra of the Earth has cooled, and for this reason the crust is slightly thicker which prevents that form of biking. it is likewise a threat that it grew to become into smaller than the excellent quantity of landmass now, yet no longer by employing a lot.. you would be able to be certain how the present continents all nonetheless seem as though they might nestle back right into a unmarried continent. even with the incontrovertible fact that, previous to Pangea, there might have been different non everlasting land hundreds, yet previous to that, there possibly wasn't any water. by way of fact the Earth formed, that's floor might have been too warm for water to easily "be there". it would have been molten rock. Any "water" in the international might have been in a vapor sort. I beleive that maximum of that got here from the ambience created by employing volcanos, which grew to become into led to by employing shifting plates. The preliminary plate shifting got here from the "epidermis" (Crust) of the planet cooling faser than that's center, whilst spinning. yet another difficulty we do not know is whether or no longer the planet grew to become into as quickly as ice encrusted, till now entering into this orbit. for this reason al of the water might have been there whilst it arrived into that's cutting-edge place as a planet. This matter has been debated, and this suggestion is seen to be "way available" with little substatiation. even with the incontrovertible fact that, whether it is genuine, previous to that, it would have been a ball of magma as defined here, and without ice or water. by way of fact the crust cooled right into a great floor, THEN the water might initiate exhibiting up.

Answer 8

all i know is that the earth is made up of 30% land and 70% water

Answer 9

It's is true that only 3% is freshwater.
As for all the water, i think is 75%??Cannot remember the eaxct figure

Answer 10

1% freshwater and 3% other

Answer 11

its between 70 and 75 percent