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What are the oceans like? (Is the ocean floor flat? (Continental slope:…
What are the oceans like?
Sum it up
An ocean is a large area of water between continents. They are very big and join smaller seas together. Together the oceans are like one because all oceans are joined. The largest ocean is the pacific ocean. it covers 1/3 of the earth's surface.
Vocabulary Terms
Salinity, water pressure, continental slope, continental shelf, abyssal plain.
Same ocean, different water
Salinity: The saltiness of water.
Water pressure: The force of water pressing against whatever it surrounds.
Is the ocean floor flat?
Continental slope: The steep area where ocean rapidly gets deeper.
Continental shelf: The underwater border of each continent.
Abyssal Plain: A vast, flat area on the deep ocean floor.
Islands come and go
That's a lot of water!
If we could fit all of Earth's oceans into gallon jugs, we could fill trillions of jugs!
Oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface, almost three times the area that land covers.
