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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest in the world and is bounded by Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east.
2,049 Questions
What is most of the floor of the North Pacific Ocean covered with?
Biogenous are dominant on deep-ocean floors.
Is the Bermuda traingle in the Pacific Ocean?
No. It is in the Carribean, or near to it, on the Atlantic Ocean side of the US.
What two rivers flow into the Indian Ocean?
The two rivers are the Murray and the Darling Rivers which, together with their many tributaries, drain the southeastern quadrant of the continent. The Darling River flows into the Murray, which in turn has its mouth at Encounter Bay in South Australia.
It is disputed, however, whether the Murray empties into the Southern Ocean or the Indian Ocean. Geographers cannot agree on the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean but, as far as Australia is concerned, the river system drains into the Southern Ocean, not the Indian Ocean.
How long is the ring of fire that stretches along the pacific ocean?
The Pacific Ring of Fire (or sometimes just the Ring of fire) is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.
Is the Mariana Trench a convergent boundary?
yes it was, the pacific plate is descending under the Eurasian plate
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What fraction of the Earth's water is in the Pacific ocean?
answ2. Of all the Earths water, 2.75% is fresh, but 2.05% of the total water is locked up in glaciers and Antarctic ice. The atmosphere contains 0.04% of the Earths fresh water. There is also some contained in trees and vegetation, but figures are not easily available.
So the Oceans are about 97% of the total water.
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Is Pacific Ocean a part of Antarctica?
No. Antarctica is a continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean, the extent of which is poorly defined insofar as its join with the Pacific Ocean.
How do you spell Pacific Ocean?
That is the correct spelling of the proper noun "Pacific Ocean" (largest of Earth's oceans).
Who explored the American West to the Pacific Ocean in 1804?
Louis and Clark reached the Pacific ocean in 1805.
How is cultural change detrimental to pacific island societies?
Loss culture, Diversity including languages barrier and social tension
Can the continents fit into the Pacific Ocean?
There is a continent in the Pacific ocean, "Australia".
Where in Mexico would it be easiest to cross from the Pacific ocean to the Gulf of Mexico?
It is known as the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It represents a distance of 192 kilometers (119 miles) between both bodies of water.
Is Pacific Ocean a Pacific State?
No, it is an ocean. A peninsula is a body of land that is connected to a larger body of land and otherwise surrounded by water. It is like an island except it is connected on one end to a larger body of land. However, the Pacific Ocean should contain a number of peninsulas such as the Baja California peninsula of Mexico and the US State of Florida.
The Gulf Stream ocean current starts in the warm Caribbean Sea and flows north along the United States Atlantic coast, then veers easterly to England. So that keeps the Atlantic coastal water a few degrees warmer than the Pacific Coast.
Both the Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans have cool and warm cycles. For instance, the North Atlantic oscillation which had been a bit warmer lately, melting a few glaciers, has now reverted to the cold part of its cycle, and some 65,000 square miles of the Arctic ocean froze over, again. This has resulted in the hugely cold and snow-covered areas east of the Mississippi River.
Scientists have predicted that Britain will become a big ice pack in the next few years.
At roughly the same time, the Pacific Decadal (Occurring every decade, or 10 years) cycle or oscillation, changed for the warmer, resulting in a little bit warmer weather in the Pacific Northwest and California.
By the way, these ocean oscillations regularly occur all over the world, and have no connection with the "Global Warming" farce.
Are the pacific ocean and the Atlantic ocean the same height?
Sea level is about 20cm higher on the Pacific than the Atlantic. This is due to the water being less dense (less salty) on average on the Pacific side, and due to the prevailing weather and ocean conditions.
At the isthmus that is known as Panama, however, we need to take into account the phase of the tides, as they are opposite to each other, i.e., when it's high tide on the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal, it's low tide on the Pacific end of the canal, and vice versa - one of the reason why "locks" are needed there. Such sea level differences are common across many short sections of land dividing ocean basins.
How did the Polynesians get to Hawaii?
by a canoe which is a boat In a boat of sorts yes. A large canoe with outriggers is most likely, but possably even a catamaran type of vessel was used.
