EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Oceans make up 97.3 percent of the total water on earth. The ice-caps have 2 percent of total water. Groundwater accounts for 0.68 percent of total water.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Around 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is comprised of water, and our big, blue, planet is filled with rivers, streams, and oceans that defy everything scientists have come to learn about the formation of Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Groundwater accounts for 0.68 percent of total water. Rivers account for 0.0001 percent of the total water. Freshwater lakes make up 0.009 percent of water while inland seas and salt lakes make up an equal percent of the earth’s water. The atmosphere, on the other, hand holds 0.0019 percent of earth’s water.