Tag: the properties of sea water
Questions Related to the properties of sea water
The highest amount of salinity is found in _________________.
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Baltic sea
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Black sea
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Dead sea
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Red sea
Rocks of oceanic crust have a density of _______________.
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5.0g/cm$^{3}$
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4.0g/cm$^{3}$
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3.0g/cm$^{3}$
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None of these
The oceanic crust is much thinner, ranging from 5 to 10 km thick. The continental crust has an average density of 3.0 g/cm3 and is composed primarily of felsic rock.
Cuba is situated in _________ Sea.
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Caribbean
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Mediterranean
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Cabrador
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None of these
Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet. It is east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
Sea mounts with flat-topped profiles are called ________.
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Atolls
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Guyot
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Ridge
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None of these
In marine geology, a guyot , also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount) with a flat top more than 200 m (660 ft) below the surface of the sea. The diameters of these flat summits can exceed 10 km (6.2 mi).
What is meant by an ocean?
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Huge water bodies
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Huge continents
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Huge land mass
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None of these
The ocean basins are huge depressions of great depth, usually more than 2000 m, having basaltic floors with varying topographic feature. Nearly 70.8 per cent of the earth's surface is covered by water. The ocean has saline water body and home of nearly 1.4 lakh species and also believed the first homes of all living organisms.
The smallest sea of the world is __________.
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Red Sea
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Baltic Sea
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North Sea
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Bering Sea
The smallest sea on Earth is the Baltic Sea. This sea is about 146,000 square feet. It lies along the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and is bordered by Poland, Russia, Sweden and Finland.
Basphorus strait connects black sea and ______ sea.
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Marmara
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Afean
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Baltic
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Ionian
Bandar Bushehr's is the seaport of ______________.
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Egypt
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Iran
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Iraq
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Saudi Arabia
Bandar-e Būshehr, also called Būshehr, Bushir, Bushire, or Būshahr, port city and capital of Būshehr province, southwestern Iran. It lies near the head of the Persian Gulf at the northern end of a flat and narrow peninsula that is connected with the mainland by tidal marshes.
We generally measure the depth of the Sea in _____________.
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Feet
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Fathoms
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Metres
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Nautical miles
Which sea is located in Central Asia?
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Red Sea
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North Sea
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Aral Sea
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Japan Sea