What percent of the earth's surface is covered by water?
1 Answer
Oct 1, 2015
About 71 % of the Earth's surface is covered by water.
Explanation:
The surface area of the Earth is
The water segment has an area of
So the percent of Earth's surface that is covered by water is
If you could form all of the water on Earth into a sphere, it would have a diameter of 1385 km.
That's a lot smaller than Earth itself.