Comparing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  Please help me answer these questions.?
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In the northern hemisphere, the overall ocean current is clockwise.  That means, on the West Coast of the USA, the water is moving down from the Arctic (brrr!), while on the East Coast, it is moving up from the equator (ahhhh!).  But that's just the coastal United States.
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if you consider a SEA and OCEAN to be the same, then it is the Pacific Ocean or formerly known as "the south sea(s)".  \n\nif you consider them different linguistically, ( as they are all bodies of water anyway ) then the "Mediterrainean Sea" is the largest sea on record.
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Alaska - it has the Arctic Ocean to the North,  and the Pacific Ocean to the South.
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5 oceans : from the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.
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There are many links here, including a link to Scripps Oceanographic institue and a section with links, Marine Education (way down at the "m"s-an alphabetical list).\nhttp://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/ocean.html
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The concentration of salt in seawater varies with temperature.  Because the Arctic and Antarctic oceans are colder than the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, the salt is less soluble.  By the same principle, seawater near the floor of the ocean would be less salty because it's cold down there.  Throw in a few baby volcanoes, the Atlantic rift and a few dozen fumaroles, etc...  Then, you would have to know how many liters of water are in the oceans and that quantity is constantly changing.  Now, are you talking about common NaCL?  Or do you want to include all the sulfates, carbonates, phosphates, etc... which are all in the ocean?  Thanks for the easy 2 points!
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Here is piece form an encyclopedia...\n\nThe Atlantic may be divided into two basins–North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean–each with a distinct circulation system. The clockwise-moving currents of the North Atlantic (North Equatorial Current, Antilles Current, Gulf Stream, North Atlantic Drift, Canaries Current) and the counterclockwise-moving currents of the South Atlantic (South Equatorial Current, Brazil Current, West Wind Drift, Benguela Current) are separated from each other by the Equatorial Counter Current; the Guinea Current off W Africa is a link between the two systems. At the Grand Banks off Newfoundland heavy fogs form along the front where the warm Gulf Stream meets the cold Labrador Current. The surface waters in the Atlantic's trade wind belts attain the highest salinity known in ocean water.
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it passes through the pacific, atlantic, and indian oceans. really the only ocean it doesnt pass through is the arctic ocean.
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I can see that you have never been to the Panama Canal and discovered that the Pacific Ocean is higher than the Gulf of Mexico...a sea level ditch would cause the Pacific Ocean to flow into the Gulf of Mexico until it had reached an equal hieght...flooding all cities along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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The Antarctic Ocean, which adjoins the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
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the pacific on the west coast at least. there is the gulf current that runs along the east coast which brings warm water fromt he gulf up. on the western side of the pacific (japan) there are warm currents there also called the kiroshio(sp?) current. it depends what part of the atlantic or pacific you are in =)
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The pacific ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_ocean\nDeath Valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_valley\n\nGood Luck!!!
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I'm surely not an expert in this, but I'll tell you what I know.\nThe salinity of ocean water varies from place to place. The oceans that surround the polar regions are less salty than the Persian Gulf areas. Also where rivers and streams empty into the ocean, that area tends to be less salty than the open ocean.\nSalinity is reported in terms of parts per thousand ( 0/00 ).\nSalt content in ocean water ranges from .5 0/00 to 40 0/00.\nThe average ocean salinity is 35 0/00. \nI had an ocean map which showed salt content of the world oceans, but cannot find it. I know this would have been a great help answering your question.  What I do remember of it is, that most major oceans had a salt content that ranged between 32 0/00 and 35 0/00.\n32 0/00 being close to islands and continents and 35 0/00 was recorded surrounding the center of the major oceans.\nI'm sure I did not answer your question completely, but I hope I helped?
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It depends which ocean of course. If you mean the biggest, the Pacific, at its widest between Central America and the Philippines, it's almost halfway round the world, in the region of 10 000 miles.
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i dont think theres many areas on the east coast,,my guess is that west coast waters are warmer
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The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean).\n\nTotal Area: total: 76.762 million sq km\n\nIt is slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US\n\nlowest point: Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 m \nhighest point: sea level 0 m\n\nExtent and Seas\n\nThe Atlantic Ocean extends in an S shape from the arctic to the antarctic regions between North and South America on the west and Europe and Africa on the east. It is connected with the Arctic Ocean by the Greenland Sea and Smith Sound; with the Pacific Ocean by Drake Passage, the Straits of Magellan, and the Panama Canal; and with the Indian Ocean by the Suez Canal and the expanse between Africa and Antarctica. The shortest distance across the Atlantic Ocean (c.1,600 mi/2,575 km) is between SW Senegal, W Africa, and NE Brazil, E South America. The principal arms of the Atlantic Ocean are Hudson and Baffin bays, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea in the west; the Baltic, North, Mediterranean, and Black seas in the east; and the Weddell Sea in the south. More large rivers, including the Mississippi, the Congo, and the Amazon, drain into the Atlantic than into any other ocean.\n\nOcean Floor\n\nThe floor of the Atlantic has an average depth of c.12,000 ft (3,660 m). It is separated from that of the Arctic Ocean by a submarine ridge extending from SE Greenland to N Scotland; part of the floor (c.3,000 ft/910 m deep) is known as “telegraph plateau” because of the network of cables laid there. A shallow submarine ridge across the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Mediterranean basin from the Atlantic and limits the exchange of water between the two bodies. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (c.300–600 mi/480–970 km wide), a submarine mountain range extending c.10,000 mi (16,100 km) from Iceland to near the Antarctic Circle, generally follows the trend of the coastlines of the continents. It rises to an average height of c.10,000 ft (3,050 m), and a few peaks emerge as islands. The ridge, which is the center of volcanic activity and earthquakes, has a great rift that is constantly widening (see seafloor spreading) and filling with molten rock from the earth's interior. As a result the Western Hemisphere and Europe and Africa are moving away from each other. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge divides the floor of the Atlantic Ocean into eastern and western sections that are composed of a series of deep-sea basins (abyssal plains). The greatest depth (c.28,000 ft/8,530 m) is the Milwaukee Deep, in the Puerto Rico Trench, N of Puerto Rico. Scientific knowledge of the ocean floor dates from the Challenger expedition (1872–76).
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There are Five oceans: Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Glacial Artic Ocean, Glacial Antartic Ocean, Indian Ocean ...