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The Ocean

The Ocean . By: Samantha Owings Courtney Strothoff Bryan Davidson James Shell . Geography . Area: 140 million miles 2 71% Earth's surface. Avg Depth: 12,200 ft Deepest point: 36,198ft Mariana Trench in the western Pacific.

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The Ocean

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  1. The Ocean By: Samantha Owings Courtney Strothoff Bryan Davidson James Shell

  2. Geography • Area: 140 million miles2 • 71% Earth's surface. • Avg Depth: 12,200 ft • Deepest point: 36,198ft Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. • Mountains: The ocean ridges form mountain range (40,000 miles) • Largest single feature on Earth. • The top 10ft of ocean hold as much heat as our entire atmosphere • oceans provide 99 percent of the Earth's living space • 90% is abyss • The Pacific Ocean is so big it could fit all of the Earth’s continents

  3. Meteorology • Ocean water 3.5% salt • average temperature 3.9 °C (39 F). • Below the thermo clines temperatures decrease slowly to about 35-37 F • 92 per cent of the entire sea-floor has a temperature lower than 40 degrees • ocean surface water is about 17 °C (62.6 F). • So even though surface waters can be a comfortable 20 degrees Celsius (good for swimming in!), the majority of our ocean water has a temperature between 0-3 degrees Celsius (32-37.5 degrees Fahrenheit).

  4. Botany • Sea lettuce • Eelgrass • Widgeon Grass • Is the study of plant life in an environment. • The ocean has a great variety of plant life. There is an un known number of different plants because only 10% has been explored.

  5. Zoology • Hundreds of different fish to cover each square foot • Fish have about five different adaptations • Sleek bodies • Gills • Eyes on the sides of their heads • Fins • Color coded skin • Most herbivores and the larger ones are carnivores • The main kinds of large animals in the sea are whales, dolphins, sharks, and seals. • Animals and fish that live in the sea are the walrus, star fish, eel, crabs, jelly fish, and fresh and salt water fish, but this is just a small list compared to the many different kinds of fish that inhabit the marine biome.

  6. References • http://savethesea.org/STS%20ocean_facts.htm • http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/salinity.html • http://ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/marine3/marine3.html • http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/LilyLi.shtml

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