EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth’s water.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oceans and Seas and the Water Cycle The oceans are, by far, the largest storehouse of water on earth-over 96% of all of Earth’s water exists in the oceans.

Detailed explanation-3: -Currently, the most favored explanation for where the Earth got its water is that it acquired it from water-rich objects (planetesimals) that made up a few percent of its building blocks. These water-rich planetesimals would have been either comets or asteroids.

Detailed explanation-4: -71% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. 97% of which is in the form of oceans. The water in the oceans is salty.

Detailed explanation-5: -97% of the earth’s water is found in the oceans (too salty for drinking, growing crops, and most industrial uses except cooling). 3% of the earth’s water is fresh.