Amazing Facts About The Ocean

Hello people,good to be back after sometime.Today i would like to talk about the Ocean.Oceans cover most of our planet,but we still have alot to learn about this ecosystem.Earth is the only known planet or moon to have to have large bodies of liquid water on its surface.Our planet lies in the 'Goldilocks' zone where it is not too hot or not too cold and with enough atmospheric pressure to prevent liquid surface water from evaporating into space.

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Water takes around 1000 years to travel all the way around the globe.The oceans not only have tides,waves and surface currents but they also have constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity.Known as the global conveyor belt of thermohaline current where thermo means temperature and haline means salinity.This deep-ocean currents gets one of its "start" from the Polar region near Norway.The cold dense water flows along the ocean bottom all the way from the northern hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere where it merges with more cold dense water from Anarctica and is swept into the Indian and Pacific Ocean.

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Moreover, half of the oxygen we breath is produced by the ocean.Some of this oxygen is produced by sea weeds and sea grsses,but the vast majority of the oxygen is produced by phytoplankton,microscope single celled organisms that have the ability to photosynthesis.

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next,The ocean may seem vast but they are small compaed to the overall size of the earth . About 71 percent of the Earth's surface  is covered by water,but the average depth of the oceans is only about 4.2 kilometers .The deepest point is in the Marianas Trench in  the Pacific Ocean,around 11 kilometers below sea level.All the water on earth would fit into a sphere about 1385 kilometers in diameter,according to US Geological Survey.The Earth's diameter is roughly nine times larger(12700 kilometers)

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That's all for today guys,i hope you guys got to know something new about the ocean and hope you guys will preserve and prevent the ocean for the future good of our environment.