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ocean is the saline water which covers 79% 0f the earth surface while continent is the place where we can locate countries
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∙ 12y agooceans are liquid and continents are solid...they also differ in spelling!
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Oceans are made of water while continents are made of land.
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What feature on a map or globe can you find the difference between two places?
Scale
What continents can the ocean ecosystem be found?
Oceans are not found on continents.
What divides the global oceans?
continents
What is most likely to make the boundaries between two continents?
oceans, mostly, but the Ural mountains in the case of Europe/Asia. Europe and Asia aren't really separate continents, so their "boundaries" are only political.
What is the difference between a plate and the lithosphere?
lithosphere is something that is under a plate. plate is the thing continents are on.
What is the difference between oceans and rivers?
One main difference between oceans and rivers is that oceans are made up of salt water while rivers are made up of fresh water. A river follows a course while oceans surround the continents and are very large.
What are the continents divided by?
The continents themselves are divided by mountain ranges. The divisions between most continents are oceans and seas.
What is the difference between a plate and a continent?
A continent is what floats on top of the plate. There are continental and oceanic plates. The continents float on the continental plate and the ocean sits on the oceanic plate. But there are also plates that carry both continents and oceans. The plates are what causes continental drift. So basically plates are what carry the continents and oceans.
What is the largest ocean in the Netherlands?
Oceans are between continents. The Netherlands is a country.
Is the passage between Australia and Antarctica getting smaller or bigger?
Your question is about the oceans and seas that occupy the space between these two continents. These levels have risen lately, as below, and the elevation is measured in millimeters. In terms of the distance to sail between these two continents, the difference is negligible.
What continent borders the arctic and indian oceans?
there is no continent that borders both, there are two continents between the two oceans
What continents are between the Indian and the Pacific Oceans?
SE Asia (Indonesia) & Australia.
What is an antipodal arrangement of oceans and continents?
Oceans and Continents are diametrically opposite to each other
What does the oceans plus the number of continents equal?
7 continents and 5 oceans = 12
What has greater seasonality oceans or continents?
continents
What feature on a map or globe can you find the difference between two places?
Scale
How are aceans different from continents?
Oceans are made out of sea water, and continents are made out of land; dirt and rocks. Oceans are liquids, continents are solids.
