Does the ocean cover 3/4 of the Earth?

Does the ocean cover 3/4 of the Earth?

The ocean covers three quarters of the Earth’s surface and represents 99 percent of the living space on the planet by volume.

What covers 3/4 of Earth’s surface?

water
Nearly three-fourths of the earth’s surface is covered with water. 97% of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water.

Which planet is covered with water?

Earth
Earth is rightfully called a water-world: far more than half of our planet is covered in water. There’s also water underground, in rivers, and in the atmosphere. Collectively, all of this water forms Earth’s hydrosphere.

Which layer covers three quarters of the Earth’s surface?

Water
Water covers nearly three-quarters of the Earth’s surface. It is found on the land, under the ground and in the atmosphere. Water can be fresh (as in lakes, rivers or underground aquifers), brackish (as in estuaries) or salty (like in the oceans).

What ocean covers 1/3 of the earth’s surface?

Water covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, with the largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean, taking up more than one-third of the planet’s surface.

What ocean covers 1/3 of the Earth’s surface?

Which is called a blue planet?

Neptune: The Blue Planet.

Which planet has most water?

the earth
When asked which Solar system world has the most water most people would say the earth has the most water. Although 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water only 0.12% of Earth’s total volume is liquid water.

Is there any planet that can support life?

Understanding planetary habitability is partly an extrapolation of the conditions on Earth, as this is the only planet known to support life.

Do any of the planets have flowing water?

Earth is the only known planet to have bodies of liquid water on its surface. In 2015, NASA confirmed that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Also in 2015, scientists used data from NASA’s Cassini mission to discover that a global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.

Where is most of the freshwater on Earth located?

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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