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"I cover more than seventy percent of the earth yet most of me has never been seen by human eyes. I am more unexplored than the surface of the moon. What am I?"
Answer
The Ocean
Explanation
Oceans cover about 71% of Earth's surface. Yet we have mapped less than 20% of the ocean floor in detail. More of the ocean remains unmapped than the surface of Mars or the Moon.
This is an easy riddle in the Science category — Riddles about physics, space, biology and the laws of the universe.
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