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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.
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The Mozambique and Benguela Currents flow along the coast of which continent?
The Mozambique and Benguela Currents both occur off the coast of the continent of Africa and form part of the Indian Ocean gyre which is a system of rotating ocean currents, and one of five oceanic gyres. The Mozambique current runs along the eastern coast of Africa between Africa and Madagascar, whereas the Benguela Current flows along the western coast of Africa between Namibia and the Southern African Cape.
What are all the states in the pacific?
The states are California, Oregon, and Washington (In the United States)
How would maritime air masses change if oceans froze?
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What people lived on a narrow strip of land between the pacific ocean and forestland?
The Pacific Northwest Indians lived on a narrow strip of land between the Pacific Ocean and forestland. Several communities, or tribes, lived in this area including the Nisga'a.
The Pacific Ocean's name come from the Latin word 'Mare Pacificum' meaning?
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan who found the ocean saw it as very peaceful, or pacifique, which means peaceful in french. The name stuck, and the word ocean...well figure it out.
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P.S. latin has nothing to do with it!!:):P:D;)
it means "The Sea that makes Peace". which is very similar to what Magellan called it and much more poetic than what Vasco Núñez de Balboa named it when he discovered it.
Ocean ecosystem-what are some decomposers that live here?
some decomposer that you could see in the pacific ocean are just the same with the decomposers in the other bodies of water, so it would also be bacterium and marine worms.
isthmus of panama
Which animals never seem to get their sea legs?
One animal that you might see go near water, but never get its sea legs would be a cat.
What is one positive aspect and one negative aspect of the US expanding to the Pacific Ocean?
POSITIVE: There are many advancements in the West, for a better life. Opportunities for gold will lead to massive wealth. The ample land provides area for business development. The West gives you a new beginning in your choices in life!
DISADVANTAGE: Westward Expansion generally had negative effects on the Native Americans. Native Americans were forced to live on reservations. The buffalo, an important resource, experienced rapid population decline. Military conflict between Whites and Native Americans resulted in many deaths.
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What is the difference between Hawaiian volcanoes and those of the Ring of Fire?
The Pacific Ring of Fire literally surrounds the basin of the Pacific Ocean, whereas the Hawaiian volcanoes are the result of the Hawaiian hotspot.
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