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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. The ocean is conventionally divided into large bodies of water, which are also referred to as oceans (in descending order by area: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic/Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean), and are themselves mostly divided…

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Average depth
3,688 m (12,100 ft)
Basin countries
List of countries by length of coastline
Max. depth
10,935 m (35,876 ft) (Challenger Deep)
Max. temperature
30 °C (86 °F) (max. surface) · 20 °C (68 °F) (avg. surface) · 4 °C (39 °F) (avg. overall)
Min. temperature
−2 °C (28 °F) (surface) · 1 °C (34 °F) (deepest points)
Sections/sub-basins
Pacific Ocean (50.1%) · Atlantic Ocean (23.3%) · Indian Ocean (19.8%) · Antarctic/Southern Ocean (5.4%) · Arctic Ocean (1.4%)

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Overview

Terminology

Natural history

Geography

Physical properties

Chemical properties

Marine life

Human uses of the oceans

Threats from human activities

Protection

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Ocean

Nodes544
Edges543
Triples399
Avg. degree2
Density0.003676
Components1

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Ocean

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related to Climate change · 19
Ocean → All, AMOC, Another, At, Atlantic, Carbon, CO2, Connected, For, More, One, Other, Salty, Scientists, So, The, There, These, This
related to Marine life · 18
Ocean → Algae, Animals, Archaea, Bacteria, Both, Brachiopods, Cnidaria, Echinoderms, For, In, Life, Many, Other, Plants, Pyropia, Seven, The, They
related to Depth · 16
Ocean → Caspian Sea, Challenger Deep, Challenger II, Deep, Earth's, In, Mariana Trench, More, Nearly, Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean, The, The British, This, Trieste, World Ocean
related to Oceanic divisions · 16
Ocean → Antarctic, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Arctic, Atlantic, Board, By, For, Geographic Names, Indian, International Hydrographic Organization, Pacific, Southern, Southern Ocean, There, This, World Ocean
related to Tides · 15
Ocean → Earth, Earth's, For, However, Moon, Moon's, Since, Sun, Sun's, The, Though, Thus, Tidal, Tides, Timing
related to World Ocean · 14
Ocean → Africa, Asia, Black, Caspian Seas, Continent, Earth, Europe, In, Mediterranean, Russian, The, World Ocean, World Sea, Yuly Shokalsky
related to Etymology · 13
Ocean → Ancient Greek, Greek, Greeks, Indo-European, IPA-label-small, Oceanus, Okeanos, Related, Romans, The, Titans, Vedic, Vṛtra
related to Ocean and sea · 13
Ocean → Antarctic/Southern, Arctic, As, Atlantic, Earth's, Indian, It, North Sea, Pacific, Red Sea, Strictly, The, There
see also · 13
Ocean → Dataset, Divisions, Earth's, European Atlas, June, Observance, Ocean Atlas, Oceans, Oceans Day, Planet, Seas, Study, Web-based
related to Protection · 12
Ocean → Clean Oceans International, Examples, Global Deal For Nature, In, Marine, MPAs, One, Other, Protecting, The Ocean Cleanup, There, UN's Sustainable Development Goal

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Important terminology

water surface oceans marine temperature sea earth's salinity waves earth zone climate depth currents land waters carbon oxygen life also

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
OceanAverage depth3,688 m (12,100 ft)1.00infobox
OceanBasin countriesList of countries by length of coastline1.00infobox
OceanMax. depth10,935 m (35,876 ft) (Challenger Deep)1.00infobox
OceanMax. temperature30 °C (86 °F) (max. surface)1.00infobox
OceanMax. temperature20 °C (68 °F) (avg. surface)1.00infobox
OceanMax. temperature4 °C (39 °F) (avg. overall)1.00infobox
OceanMin. temperature−2 °C (28 °F) (surface)1.00infobox
OceanMin. temperature1 °C (34 °F) (deepest points)1.00infobox
OceanSections/sub-basinsPacific Ocean (50.1%)1.00infobox
OceanSections/sub-basinsAtlantic Ocean (23.3%)1.00infobox
OceanSections/sub-basinsIndian Ocean (19.8%)1.00infobox
OceanSections/sub-basinsAntarctic/Southern Ocean (5.4%)1.00infobox
OceanSections/sub-basinsArctic Ocean (1.4%)1.00infobox
OceanShore length1Low interval calculation: 356,000 km (221,208 mi) High interval calculation: 1,634,701 km (1,015,756 mi)[vague]1.00infobox
OceanSurface area361,000,000 km2 (139,382,879 sq mi) (70.8% of Earth's surface area)1.00infobox
OceanTrenchesList of oceanic trenches1.00infobox
OceanWater volume1,370,000,000 km3 (328,680,479 cu mi) (97.5% of Earth's water)1.00infobox
Oceancauseslarger waves as the moving air pushes against the raised ridges of water0.90text
Oceanis abody of salt water that covers approximately 70.80.90text
Oceanis aprincipal component of Earth's hydrosphere0.90text
Oceanis atype of marine pollution by plastics0.90text

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