6 results for “water”

1. Planet Earth

   The Oceans

   Water covers 71 percent of the surface, and almost all of that water, 97 percent, is in the ocean

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2. Planet Earth

   Weather and Climate

   Water is the other half of the engine. The Sun evaporates about 500,000 cubic kilometres

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3. Planet Earth

   The Atmosphere

   Water vapour varies from almost nothing over deserts to about four percent over tropical seas. That

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4. Planet Earth

   Volcanoes

   water through its entire history, while the atmosphere's water and nitrogen themselves were largely outgassed

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5. Planet Earth

   Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes

   water and life can exist. Earth is the only planet we know with active plate tectonics

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6. Planet Earth

   Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

   water, and then millions of years of luck. The vast majority of species that ever lived

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