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Body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water.
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Sea
16 linksThe sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty water that covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth's surface.
Atlantic Ocean
11 linksThe Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about 106460000 km2.
Pacific Ocean
8 linksLargest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
At 165250000 km2 in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, larger than Earth's entire land area combined 148,000,000 sqkm.
Southern Ocean
7 linksThe Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
Arctic Ocean
7 linksThe Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.
Indian Ocean
6 linksThe Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70560000 km2 or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface.
Ocean acidification
6 linksOcean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH value of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Mediterranean Sea
7 linksSea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant.
Sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant.
The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about 2500000 km2, representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only 14 km wide.
Continental shelf
7 linksPortion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
Portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
Though the continental shelf is treated as a physiographic province of the ocean, it is not part of the deep ocean basin proper, but the flooded margins of the continent.