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Roughly 97.5% of Earth's water is salt water, found in the oceans, while about 2.5% is fresh water. Most of the fresh water is locked up in ice caps and glaciers, with a small fraction available in rivers, lakes, and groundwater.
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What is the percent of fresh water and salt water on earth and where is each type found?
The fresh water better than the salt water because the salt water has salt and that's not good for the living things
How does the amount of fresh water compare to the amount of salt water on the Earth?
Approximately 97% of the Earth's water is salt water, found in oceans and seas. Only about 3% of the Earth's water is fresh water, with the majority of that locked in ice caps and glaciers.
Contrast salt water and fresh water?
Fresh and salt water are very different for one key reason, fresh water doesn't contain salt and salt water obviously does. There are different flora and fauna in fresh and salt water for this reason.
What percent of water on earth is fresh water?
About 2.5% of the water on Earth is fresh water. However, the majority of this fresh water is locked up in ice caps and glaciers, making only a small percentage accessible for human use.
How much percent is the Earth's salt water?
About 97% of the Earth's water is salt water found in oceans and seas.
How much water on earth is free water?
What free water? are you meaning fresh or salt water?????????
How much percent of fresh water lies on earth?
Assuming you mean "How much of the water on Earth is fresh water", about 5% of the water on the Earth is fresh water, as opposed to about 95% salt water. To anser your question directly though, 100% of the fresh water we know about is on Earth. There is some water on other celestial bodies, but I wouldn't exactly call it fresh water.
Is most of earth's fresh water salty or fresh?
Most of the water on earth is salt water.
How much of the water on earth is salt?
The total volume of water on Earth is estimated at 1.386 billion km³ (333 million cubic miles). About 97.5% of water on Earth is salt water and 2.5% fresh water. Of the 2.5% fresh water, only 0.3% is in liquid form on the surface.
How much water left to drink on earth?
Technically, all the water on the Earth is drinkable. Desalination plants are constantly modifying salt water into fresh water.
What is the percent of fresh water and salt water on earth and where is each type found?
The fresh water better than the salt water because the salt water has salt and that's not good for the living things
How much per cent of the earth is covered by fresh water?
Only 2.5 percent of the earth is coverd in freash water the of is coverd in salt water(70%)
How much water in the Earth comes from antarctica?
Seventy one percent of earth's surface is water -- salt water. The ice sheet in Antarctica holds about seventy percent of earth's fresh water.
What are the main land and water types of earth?
fresh water, and salt water
What are the result of Which freezes faster salt water or fresh water?
Salt water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh water, so it typically takes longer for salt water to freeze compared to fresh water. This is because the presence of salt lowers the freezing point of water.
Why water is considered to be a resource that is in short supply when there is so much of it on earth?
because most of the earths water is salt water and there us only 2.5% of fresh water on the earth =D
Is there more fresh water than salt water on the earth surface?
No, salt water accounts for about 97% of Earth's water, while fresh water only makes up about 3%. This fresh water is primarily found in ice caps, glaciers, lakes, and underground aquifers.
