what is bigger land or water??

Question

they say that water is 3/4 of the earth.. but i'm really confused, after water, land is always there in the bottom of the wwater so what is much bigger land or water??

Answer 1

Well, "land", refers to what's above the surface of the water.
It includes many elements and minerals. Water on the other hand only includes H20.

The Oceans cover 70% of the earth.

The core of the earth is molten rock, hence liquid. So you could call it a rock ocean (it does have currents).

Furthermore, there is much moisture (gaseous water) in the atmosphere which covers 100% of the earth, as well as ice on the polar caps (while it last). That counts as land and water.

So you kinda comparing apples and pie.

But most known matter in the universe is plasma, like the sun.

Some planets have much more amazing oceans, like the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

But here's how much water there is:
About 1,460 teratonnes (Tt) (1 360 000 000 km³ ) of water covers 71% of the Earth's surface, mostly in oceans and other large water bodies, with 1.6% of water below ground in aquifers and 0.001% in the air as vapor, clouds

As for the Earth, here is the best I could find:
The mass of the Earth is approximately 5.98×1024 kg. It is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%); with the remaining 1.2% consisting of trace amounts of other elements. Due to mass segregation, the core region is believed to be primarily composed of iron (88.8%), with smaller amounts of nickel (5.8%), sulfur (4.5%), and less than 1% trace elements.

SO THE EARTH IS MOSTLY IRON...and that's mostly at the core.

Saltwater oceans hold 97% of surface water, glaciers and polar ice caps 2.4%, and other land surface water such as rivers and lakes 0.6%

Much of the universe's water may be produced as a byproduct of star formation.

Water vapor is on:
Mercury - 3.4% in the atmosphere
Venus - 0.002% in the atmosphere
Earth - trace in the atmosphere (varies with climate)
Mars - 0.03% in the atmosphere
Jupiter - 0.0004% in the atmosphere
Saturn - in ices only
Enceladus (moon of Saturn) - 91% in the atmosphere

Water ice is on:

Earth - mainly on ice sheets
polar ice caps on Mars
Titan
Europa
Enceladus

Answer 2

The total surface area of the Earth is approximately 511,185,900 square kilometres with the sum total of all the land being 150,142,300 square kilometres . Taking the second figure from the first, we get a total water coverage of 361,043,600 square kilometres, so...

361,043,600 / 511,185,900 x 100 = 70.6% of the planet being covered by water (close to 3/4 which would be 75%)

What is meant by the percentage covered is just that - if the water is on top of the land (which it is) then the water is COVERING the land.

If you were to measure the total amount of water and land, the only way of comparing them on a 'level playing field' would be to weigh them, and of course there would be more land than water! The 3/4 figure you quoted is a number commonly used to describe the total COVERAGE, not the total AMOUNT. Water is spread over its part of the planetary surface in a thin layer (thin compared with the size of the planet Earth).

Does that help clarify?

Answer 3

Water (the oceans) are 2/3 of the surface of the Earth while land only consumes 1/3 of the surface of the Earth.

Answer 4

what people mean is the surface of earth is actually 3/4 water,

Answer 5

Land is bigger as it includes the full earth ,but water is too less-only on surface

but area of water is more than that of land

hehe

Answer 6

water 75% land 25%. what's at the ocean bottom doesn't count.

Answer 7

Biggerland

Answer 8

water

Answer 9

land because there some land beneath the ocean

Answer 10

yehah - the biggest animal on land is the african elephant the biggest land animal ever was argentinosaurus the biggest animal in the skies ever was quetzalcoatlus the biggest animal in the skies is now is the wandering albatross and the biggest animal in water, and ever is the blue whale