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Sea

A sea is a large body of salt water. The term has two distinct meanings. The first is the interconnected body of seawater that spans most of Earth, known as the sea or the ocean. The second is a named body of water: usually either a marginal sea (a second-order section of the oceanic sea such as the Mediterranean Sea), or a large, nearly landlocked body…

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Physical science

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Life in the sea

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Humans and the sea

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Environmental issues

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Sea

Nodes711
Edges710
Triples567
Avg. degree2
Density0.002813
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related to history · 116
Sea → African Coast, Amazon River, America, An, Arab, Arabian Peninsula, Around, Asian, Atlantic, Austronesian, Austronesians, Bartolomeu Dias, Bathysphere, BC, Bismarck Archipelago, Black Sea, Britain, British, By, Cape
related to Trade · 39
Sea → Africa, Africans, Americas, Arabs, Arctic, Asia, Atlantic, BC, China, English Channel, European, From, Greeks, Hercules, Increased, India, Indian Ocean, Indians, Israelites, Large
related to War · 39
Sea → Age, Alashiya, At, Battle, Battles, British, British Royal Navy, Control, Coral Sea, Cyprus, Dreadnoughts, First World War, French, Greek, Hittites, Horatio Nelson, Imperial German Navy's High, In, Japanese, Jutland
related to Currents · 30
Sea → Although, Antarctic, Antarctica, At, Atlantic, Both, Coriolis, Earth's, From, Global, Greenland, Here, Indian, Indian Ocean, It, Northern Hemisphere, Not, Ocean, Other, Pacific
related to In culture · 24
Sea → Bible, Dutch, Elder, Greek, Hendrick Dubbels, In Dutch Golden Age, Isonade, It, Jan Porcellis, Japanese, Joseph Turner, Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, Lamu, Leviathan, Ludolf Bakhuizen, Norse, Scylla, The, The Ancients
related to Coasts · 21
Sea → All, Around, At, Coastlines, Dredging, For, Governments, Gradually, Here, Hurricane Katrina, London, Material, New Orleans, Normally, Sediment, Storm, Thames Barrier, The, This, Under
related to Indigenous sea peoples · 19
Sea → Aboriginal Australians, Andaman Sea, Arctic, Australia, Burma, Chukchi, Great Barrier Reef, Inuit, Inuvialuit, Maritime Southeast Asia, Papua, Several, Some Sea Gypsies, Thailand, The, The Moken, They, Torres Strait Islanders, Yup'iit
related to Definition · 18
Sea → An, Arctic Oceans, Atlantic, Earth's, Galilee, However, Indian, Law, North Atlantic Gyre, North Sea, Pacific, Red Sea, Sargasso Sea, Seas, Southern, The, The United Nations Convention, There
related to Travel · 17
Sea → Atlantic, Batavia, By, Dutch, In, Later, New York, One, Paris, Sailing, The, The Blue Riband, The Hales Trophy, The Mauretania, These, United States, When
related to Marine pollution · 16
Sea → Atlantic, Combustion, Foraging, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, In, Industrial, Many, Microplastics, Much, Pacific, PCBs, Rigid, The, There, These, Turtles

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water ocean surface waves marine land seas currents known may oceans seawater large fish seabed deep also life atlantic tides

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Seacausesfriction at the interface between air and sea0.90text
Seais alarge body of salt water0.90text
Seais ainterconnected system of all the Earth's oceanic waters0.90text
Seais alargest one of these0.90text
Seais arecurring theme in the Haiku poems of the Japanese Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō0.90text
the Mediterranean Seainstance ofa second-order section of the oceanic sea0.80text
particlesinstance ofexchanging properties0.80text
temperatureinstance ofexchanging properties0.80text
as well as currentsinstance ofexchanging properties0.80text
swimminginstance ofand leisure activities0.80text
sailinginstance ofand leisure activities0.80text
and scuba divinginstance ofand leisure activities0.80text

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