Much of This Is Frozen Glaciers and Icecaps
Fresh water covers only 1 of the Earths surface. Of this 70 98 is salt water leaving 2 as fresh water. Epingle Sur More Environmental Issues Only a small percentage of the water on earth about 77 percent is frozen in glaciers and polar icecaps. . From Exercise 13 you know that there are about 9975000 cubic miles of freshwater on Earth. How much of earths freshwater is locked away in glaciers and ice caps. Of the three percent that is not in oceans 69 percent is locked up in glaciers and ice caps. Of the 2 that is fresh about 90 is frozen. Also what percent of freshwater is frozen. If the melting of icecaps and glaciers added 6000 cubic miles to this surface water then that would be a percent change of. Presently 10 percent of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice including glaciers ice caps and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. How much of the worlds. Also Know what percent of freshwater...