what percentage of the earth is covered by water?
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About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. Water also exists in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in the ground as soil moisture and in aquifers, and even in you and your dog.
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About 97 percent of Earth's water is in the ocean. The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet. It's hard to imagine, but about 97 percent of the Earth's water can be found in our ocean. Of the tiny percentage that's not in the ocean, about two percent is frozen up in glaciers and ice caps.
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Scientists estimate that 83 percent of the terrestrial biosphere is under direct human influence. Crops cover some 12 percent of Earth's land surface, and account for more than one-third of terrestrial biomass. One-third of all available fresh water is diverted to human use.
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Nothing on our planet can survive without water. It covers 70% of the surface and about 60% of our body is composed of nothing but water. Water is everywhere. ... But all life on Earth shares one thing in common: we all need water to live.
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The ocean holds about 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, in rivers and lakes. Of the world's total water supply of about 332 million cubic miles of water, about 97 percent is found in the ocean.
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The air we breathe: The ocean produces over half of the world's oxygen and absorbs 50 times more carbon dioxide than our atmosphere. Climate regulation: Covering 70 percent of the Earth's surface, the ocean transports heat from the equator to the poles, regulating our climate and weather patterns.
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, most of that three percent is inaccessible. Over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in ground water. Only about 0.3 percent of our fresh water is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps.
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The total surface area of Earth is about 197 million square miles (510 million square km). About 71 percent is covered by water and 29 percent by land.
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Over 97% of the Earth's water is found in the planet's five oceans for a total volume of about 1,400,000,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000000000 liters. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, covering 165,760,000 sq. km — more than double the area of the Atlantic Ocean at 82,400,000 sq. km.
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Water on Earth is very abundant— about 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered by water. There are more than 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth.
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65% of Earth Is Unexplored. The extent of human impact on these underwater ecosystems is impressive. Still, we've only mapped 5 percent of the world's seafloor in any detail. Excluding dry land, that leaves about 65 percent of the Earth unexplored.
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The vast majority of water on the Earth's surface, over 96 percent, is saline water in the oceans.
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Lakes cover about 4 percent of the Earth's land surface. Many of the largest ones (by area) are salty: Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Caspian Sea (arguably the world's biggest lake), Iran's Lake Urmia, and the Dead Sea. Unlike marine and brackish waters, saline lakes typically form inland, and do not connect to the ocean.
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Rivers make up 0.49% of surface freshwater. Although rivers account for only a small amount of freshwater, this is where humans get a large portion of their water.
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This is the activity that uses the most water worldwide By some estimates, a whopping 70 percent of all freshwater globally is used for agriculture. Since only 2.5 percent of the earth's water is freshwater, agriculture isn't just a burden on the water supply – it's a massive piece of a shockingly small pie.
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Water is of major importance to all living things; in some organisms, up to 90% of their body weight comes from water. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water.
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As these charts and the data table show, the amount of water locked up in ice and snow is only about 1.7 percent of all water on Earth, but the majority of total freshwater on Earth, about 68.7 percent, is held in ice caps and glaciers.