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Why there is a pressure difference between the oceans and the continents?
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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 is the difference between oceans and continents?
ocean is the saline water which covers 79% 0f the earth surface while continent is the place where we can locate countries
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 Six elements that control climate?
The six elements that control climate are: Altitude The relationship between continents and oceans Pressure belts Wind belts Ocean currents and Topography
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
