what are the three main vertical divisions of the ocean?
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['The three main layers of the ocean are: surface, intermediate (or mixed), and deep. ... ', 'The surface zone is an area where currents are mostly driven by winds and there is more life possible due to higher light levels.', 'The intermediate zone is an area where surface and deep currents interact.']
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The main branches are geology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and environmental science.
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The ocean has three main layers: the surface ocean, which is generally warm, and the deep ocean, which is colder and more dense than the surface ocean, and the seafloor sediments. The thermocline separates the surface from the deep ocean.
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The most familiar continental divide in North America separates the watersheds of the Pacific Ocean in the west and the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay, Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico in the east. The so-called Great Divide roughly follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains.
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2. Explain how climate zones are characterized. Notes: According to the three cell convection model of each hemisphere the Earth neatly separates itself into three distinct climate zones; the polar, temperate, and the tropical zones.
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Earth can be divided into three main layers: the core, the mantle and the crust. Each of these layers can be further divided into two parts: the inner and outer core, the upper and lower mantle and the continental and oceanic crust. ... The inner core is solid, while the outer core is liquid.
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Geography can be divided into three main branches or types. These are human geography, physical geography and environmental geography.
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['Spray Zone. The spray zone is the upper part of the beach that occasionally gets splashed, but never gets covered by the ocean. ... ', 'High Intertidal Zone. ... ', 'Mid Intertidal Zone. ... ', 'Low Intertidal Zone.']
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Seafloor spreading occurs along mid-ocean ridges—large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, for instance, separates the North American plate from the Eurasian plate, and the South American plate from the African plate.
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Huge circular-moving current systems dominate the surfaces of the oceans. These large whirls of water within an ocean basin are called gyres (gyros = a circle). There are five main ocean gyres: the North Pacific Gyre, the South Pacific Gyre, the North Atlantic Gyre, the South Atlantic Gyre, and the Indian Ocean Gyre.
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['lithosphere.', 'asthenosphere.', 'mesosphere.', 'outer core.', 'inner core.']
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Traditionally, oceanography has been divided into four separate but related branches: physical oceanography, chemical oceanography, marine geology, and marine ecology.
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Earth has three main climate zones—tropical, temperate, and polar. These zones can be further divided into smaller zones, each with its own typical climate.
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The Earth is divided into three main layers. The dense, hot inner core (yellow), the molten outer core (orange), the mantle (red), and the thin crust (brown), which supports all life in the known universe. Earth's interior is generally divided into three major layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core.
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The principal divisions (in descending order of area) are the: Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antarctic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. Smaller regions of the oceans are called seas, gulfs, bays, straits, and other terms.
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Three types of water waves may be distinguished: wind waves and swell, wind surges, and sea waves of seismic origin (tsunamis).
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Earth is divided into three layers . core, mantle and crust. These layers are further divided into two parts the inner and outer core , upper and lower mantle ,Continental and oceanic cruth. Both inner ad outer core are mostly made of mostly iron and some nickel .