What is a landform that develops when a river deposits sediment as it flows into the ocean?
River Delta or just simply delta.
What was the strategy of the united stATes in the struggle to reconquer the pacific islands?
By moving island to island called island hoping
How many whales are left in the world?
The answer depends on the breed you are talking about.
According to Greenpeace.org, the West Pacific grey whale population is the most endangered in the world. It hovers on the edge of extinction with just over 100 remaining.
Humpback whales currently number only 20,000.
A 2002 report estimated there were 5,000 to 12,000 Blue Whales worldwide
What is saltier the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean?
Before and after I am done urinating in Mediterranean beaches, the water is much saltier than the Atlantic due to the fact that the Mediterranean loses more water to evaporation than it receives from rivers.
What is the worlds 2 largest ocean?
There is the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.
What is the relative location of the pacific coast?
Well relative location is something near your 'target'. But as well, there is absolute location, which is RIGHT-ON a location with longitude and latitude.
So the answer in my opinion is to the east of Europe and to the west of North America
What waterway connects the Caribbean sea and the pacific oceans?
The Panama Canal provides a route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Many cruises are available to transit the Panama Canal.
Do rivers usually flow to the ocean or away from the ocean?
All tidal rivers. For example - the Hudson's current changes direction four times every day as ocean tides pulse upriver to the Troy dam.
His name was Vasco Núñez de Balboa. He was the first explorer one to cross into and see the Pacific Ocean. He, however, was not the one who named it. After him, Ferdinand Magellan -- who captained the first circumnavigatin of the globe -- traveled through the Pacific and named it then in 1520.
Who was the first spanish explorer to reach the pacific ocean?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his expedition discovered the Pacific Ocean (at that time named the South Sea because it was on the south shore of Panama) on September 25, 1513.
What is a major belt of volcanoes that rims the pacific ocean?
The Pacific Rim is often called the Ring of Fire because of the massive amount of volcanoes and earthquakes. People that live in these regions are rather used to these phenomena, but they still wreak havoc regularly.
Waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
The shipping route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is the Northwest Passage. It was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903â??1906.
What are five states that touch Pacific Ocean?
It touches more than 5 countries:
What species live in the pacific ocean?
-Salmon
-walrus
-spotted egal rays
-sea birds
-jelly fish
-squid
-Marien worms
-sea urchins
-killer wales
-hammer head shark
-tank
Why was the Pacific Ocean so called?
The name is derived from the Latin name Tepre Pacificum, 'peaceful sea', bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Pacific means peaceful. Ferdinand Magellan named the Pacific Ocean 'pacific', after passing through the Straits of Magellan and around Cape Horn, because it seemed so calm and peaceful in comparison to the stormy waters he had just sailed through.
What state borders the Arctic Ocean as well as the pacific ocean?
It is Alaska.
The Arctic Ocean is the body of saltwater that surrounds the northern polar ice cap. The only US state to border the Arctic Ocean is Alaska.
Is the Peru Current a cold or warm current?
since the Peru current is near the south pole I would say it is a cold current but if you have a different opinion and search the internets you will never find the rights answer and if this question popped into the head of your brain your either a smartly pants or for a last minute worksheet
How much bigger is the pacific ocean than the Arctic Ocean?
The Arctic Ocean would fit into the Pacific Ocean about 12 times.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world at 179.7 million square kilometres (69.4 million sq mi).
The Arctic Ocean is the fifth largest (and smallest) ocean in the world at 14,056,000 sq km (5,427,000 sq mi).
Which island lies on the crossroads of the Pacific Ocean?
== == Fiji is on the crossroads of the Pacific Ocean.
Oregon borders California, Nevada and the Pacific Ocean. Salem is the capital city in the U.S. state of Oregon.
How deep is the deepest part of the the Pacific Ocean?
Its average depth is 4,637 meters (2.8 miles). It is home to the deepest known point in the ocean - the Mariana Trench off Guam - which plunges to a depth of about 10,924 meters (nearly 7 miles). Because of the depth of the Pacific Ocean, tsunamis (huge waves created by earthquakes) can reach speeds of 750 kilometers an hour, the same velocity as a jet airplane.
Well recently a submarine plunged down and measured and the new depth is 12,999 meters deep.
The deepest point in the ocean is generally believed to be in the Marianas Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean at approximately 36,160 feet (11,021 m), according to the Rand McNally Atlas(1977).
What are the five continents that touch pacific ocean?
There are four: North and South America, Asia, and Australia.
The area around Antarctica is now considered the "Southern Ocean." However, this classically included the southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
The Pacific Ocean touches all continents except two what are they?
The Pacific Ocean does not touch the continents of Europe, Africa, or Antarctica, so it does not touch three continents. It used to touch Antarctica, but recently the water around Antarctica was made into a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean, making it the only ocean to touch Antarctica.