Oceans Flashcards
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How many oceans
5
Biggest and deepest ocean
Pacific Ocean
How much of earth is covered in water
70.8 percent
Area of Pacific ocean
168,723,000 km 2 (46.6 percent of water surface)
32 percent of earths total area
Average depth of Pacific Ocean
4000 m
How many islands in the pacific ocean
20 thousand
deepest point in pacific ocean
Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, near Philippines (10.984 m)
By how much is Pacific ocean shrinking each year
1 inch or 2.5 cm each year
How did pacific ocean get its name
named by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan
shape of pacific ocean
roughly triangular, apex at the Bering strait
Rivers that flow into pacific
Yukon, Columbia, Fraser, Colorado, etc
4 main archipelagos of Micronesia
Caroline islands
Gilbert islands
Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
4 independent countries of Melanesia
Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
second largest ocean
Atlantic Ocean (85, 133, 000 km2)
third deepest ocean in the world
Atlantic ocean
How much of water surface does atlantic ocean cover
Roughly 24 percent
17 percent of earths surface
Average depth of Atlantic ocean
3646 m
maximum depth of atlantic ocean
8380 m at the Puerto Rico Trench, Puerto Rico
who named atlantic
greeks
seas surrounding atlantic ocean
Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, part of the Drake Passage, Gulf of Mexico, Labrador Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, almost all of the Scotia Sea,
Atlantic Ocean is shaped like
S
how much is atlantic ocean expanding each year
1.5 inches wider
bermuda triangle part of which ocean
North Atlantic ocean
Rivers that drain into Atlantic ocean
St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Río de la Plata, the Congo, the Niger, the Loire, the Rhine, the Elbe,
