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What causes the oceans surface water to be warmer than water in the mixed zone or deep zone?
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The sun’s rays hit the surface directly.
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The sun’s rays hit the surface directly.
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What are three main zones of the open oceans?
surface mixed zone , transition zone, deep zone
What type of tides do most of the worlds oceans experince?
Mixed tides.
When the oceans beame highways what changed?
the world got smaller and culture mixed
What changed when the oceans became highways?
the world got smaller and cultures mixed APEX
How did the world change when the oceans became highways?
Cultures, people, and goods spread out and mixed
Does oceans contain freshwater and saltwater?
yes when they r mixed together they form a plasma
What is Microsoft surface?
A microstoft surface is just like a ipad, and a computer mixed, but it is better.
What pool color will keep the water warmer?
nothin to do with the colour ; it depends on the weather and also the chemicals mixed with it
Will the water from Antarctic ice melted because of global warming go to the ocean surface because it is fresh or to the bottom because it colder?
The oceans are fairly turbulent and any water entering these bodies of water would eventually be mixed with the whole. If this were not the case, we would see pockets of non salty water in our oceans as water from glaciers is fresh water.
How can water be distributed by oceans?
In the first place all water is bound to end up in the oceans. any water that ends up in the ocean will be moved with currents in the water and mixed depositing any minerals and chemicals diluting them. the oceans have an enormous surface over which air passes. this air will pick up water from the surface of the ocean which from there moved by winds and convection into the higher cooler atmosphere from where water the water vapour condenses into droplets on dust particles in the upper atmosphere to fall back to earth as either water snow or ice depending on conditions.
What the is thermocline?
The transition layer between the mixed layer at the surface and the deep water layer.
What are some animals that live in the surface mixed zone?
Fish
