Pacific Ocean

Keeling recognized that early measurements in England and France had been influenced locally by continental vegetation, and he found the same problem with his own early measurements along the west coast of the U.S.. Coastal weather systems were entraining the continental signal. So, with the goal of getting to a large volume of atmosphere, well-mixed, without a large amount of CO2 "signal" from land vegetation, he decided to measure in the middle of the Pacific, using shipboard measurements and island-based stations (Christmas and Fanning islands, and Hawaii). Atop Mauna Loa the mountain pokes through the "boundary layer", giving good sampling of well-mixed air over very large expanse. (When sampling is not upwind of the volcano, the monitor is shut off).

[For my Master's Thesis research with Keeling, I compared shipboard sampling in the Pacific against the island stations, to determine the effect of stochastic weather events. --Jusin Lancaster, Ph.D., 1990, Scripps Inst. Oceanography]

hot chocolate, its made from boiling water.

the pacific ocean does not reach the temperature of boiling water, or no life would survive there.

Assuming you mean US states only, probably Alaska. Definitely Alaska if you count the shorelines of the Aleutian islands, and Alaska or maybe California otherwise, depending on how precisely you measure shoreline. For instance, you could take a map and measure the lengths of the shores drawn on it. To be more precise, you could take a bigger map. If you wanted to be perfectly precise you could take a tape measure to the coast and measure every little turn, but that would take far too long, so coastline measurements can easily vary by quite a bit.

Well first of all it transports lots of things we use every day even if we don't realize it, try writing that on your next essay about the Pacific Ocean, instant A! I have posted this to the community so please feel free to add another paragraph containing an important reason why the Pacific Ocean is a mandatory body of water. Of course there are other facts like it is home to the barrier reef, it is the deepest ocean in the world and also the largest but those aren't exactly in this category. Thanks for reading!

about 25% of all marine life lives in or around coral reefs, therefore, there is an abundance of fish from all diffferent species ranging from the smallest bait fish to the largest sharks and whales.

Manifest destiny

Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a very important man that found the eastern shore from the pacific ocean.

pacific volcano belt is also called ring of fire. if u draw a red line along the countries surrounding Pacific Ocean in a blank world map u get the belt..formed because of plate tectonics and lithosphere collisions and a very active place for earthquakes and volcanoes.

Manifest Destiny.

Alaska is on the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. So. Yes, Alaska is near the Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Northwest mostly includes the nations of Canada and the United States. Common food types in these areas include Asian food (Chinese, Japanese, etc.), Mexican/other Hispanic food, Italian food, American food, and Indian food.

by concering many other people in the vally of mexico

The Great Barrier Reef is specifically located in the Coral Sea, which is part of the southern Pacific Ocean.

Volcanic activity, earthquakes, plate interactions

Ferdinand Magellan

Crete and Rhodes are the two largest islands in the Aegean Sea.

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seals, whales, crabs, starfish, coral (which is actually an animal along with sponges that are often mistaken as plants), gulls, puffins and many more.

It was a long held belief that North America could be crossed by a series of rivers that connected the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was the goal of Lewis and Clarke to find a connecting link between the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean and finally locate the â??Northwest Passageâ??. Once they got to the Pacific they new this legendary route did not exist. However, they did find sources of the Missouri, major tributaries of the Columbia and collected valuable information that opened the path to western expansion.

It is possible that it was seen by Europeans who visited China during the Middle Ages or during the travels of Marco Polo. Few would have recognized it or guessed at its size.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first Spanish explorer to see the Pacific Ocean in 1513. One of the first explorers of the Americas mainland, he traveled by canoe across the isthmus of Panama in 1513.

• Eventual world climate change

The Pacific Ocean covers about 28% of the global surface.

Subduction is a result of a collision between two tectonic plates, either oceanic to oceanic collision or oceanic to continental plate collision. The heavier, or more dense plate sinks under the more buoyant less dense plate, and is drawn down into the upper mantle.

The most important is sodium chloride; but also exist calcium, magnesium and potassium chlorides.