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WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE THE EARTH’S OCEANS AND SEAS

WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE THE EARTH’S OCEANS AND SEAS. MARINA DELCONTE EARTH SCIENCE 203. MAJOR BODIES OF WATER. Four Oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Pacific is largest and deepest 64,186,300 square miles 12,925 feet average depth Fifth ocean delimited in 2000

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WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE THE EARTH’S OCEANS AND SEAS

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  1. WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERETHE EARTH’S OCEANS AND SEAS MARINA DELCONTE EARTH SCIENCE 203

  2. MAJOR BODIES OF WATER • Four Oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic • Pacific is largest and deepest • 64,186,300 square miles • 12,925 feet average depth • Fifth ocean delimited in 2000 • Southern Ocean north of Antarctica

  3. CORAL REEFS • Form in shallow, warm seas • Made of coral polyps’ skeletons • Grow on top of old skeletons • Spend adult lives fixed to same spot • Coral diseases increasing dramatically past 10 years • Responding to onset of bacteria, fungi, viruses

  4. OCEAN ZONES • Sunlit(down to 650 feet) • Sea plants and many animals • Twilight(down to 3,3oo feet) • Many different fish • Sunless(down to 13,100 feet) • Animals feed on dead food from above

  5. WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE!!!!! MARINA DELCONTE EARTH SCIENCE 203

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