Wikibooks: Planet Earth/5c. Earth’s Oceans (Warehouses of Water).
=The Earth’s Oceans= The majority of your existence with be spent on one of the Earth’s continents despite the fact that the majority of Earth’s surface is covered by water. Over 361 million square kilometers (139 million square miles) of Earth’s surface is covered by liquid water representing 71% o...
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| Summary: | =The Earth’s Oceans= The majority of your existence with be spent on one of the Earth’s continents despite the fact that the majority of Earth’s surface is covered by water. Over 361 million square kilometers (139 million square miles) of Earth’s surface is covered by liquid water representing 71% of Earth’s surface. This warehouse of liquid water is amazingly gigantic yet rarely factors into our daily lives unless you are crossing one of these gigantic expanses of water. The Earth is called the “Blue Planet” because the blue color of these ocean waters dominates Earth’s overall color from outer space. Since all of Earth’s oceans are connected the divisions of the World’s Ocean into geographically named regions are somewhat arbitrary but typically divided into five oceans the Pacific Atlantic Indian Southern (Antarctic) and Arctic Oceans. However each of these oceans are interconnected allowing water to circulate globally between these regions of Earth. The World’s Ocean exhibits an average depth of 3.7 kilometers about 2.3 miles deep. As a major feature of Earth the oceans are extremely important in regional weather patterns and climate far inland and has a major factor in Utah’s weather despite being almost 1 megameters from the nearest coastline. Pacific Ocean en.png Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean en.png Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean CIA WFB Map.png Indian Ocean Southern Ocean en.png Southern (Antarctic) Ocean Arctic Ocean en.png Arctic Ocean =Exploring the Ocean Floor= With long hair and a gray beard Victor Vescovo is an alumnus of some of the most prestigious universities in the United States earning degrees from Harvard Stanford and MIT but rather than science Vescovo specialized in degrees in business and political science. He was recruited by the ill fated Lehman Brothers where he worked on advising the Saudi Arabian government on business investments but also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer until 2013. In 2001 he started a company offering credit and loans ... |
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