• Question: What percentage of the earth is covered by water ?

    Asked by anon-174277 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Hayley, Carl, Alex on 18 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Tim Craig

      Tim Craig answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      Its just over 70% of the Earths surface. But I’m not sure if that includes all the freshwater lakes, or is just ocean coverage…

    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      Yes, the ~70% is including freshwater too, but ~96% of all that water is contained within the oceans!

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