cubic meter
1000 m = 1 km
10 km3
10 km3
10 km3
10 X 10 X 10 = 1000 cubic km
1000 X
ONEMILLION
CUBICKILOMETERS
Enough water to fill...25…
How much water is 1 million km3?
TRILLION25,000,000,000,00050 trillion
Tahoma pools
35% 18% 14% 3%
35 + 18 + 14 + 3 = 70%
4000m (2.5 miles) 1300m2000m10,000m10,100m11,000m
More than 7 miles
PACIFIC
Named by Magellan it is thebiggest, oldest, deepest & itis shrinking.
Marianas TrenchChallenger Deep11,035m(35,802’ or 7 miles)
* *World’s TALLEST mtHawai’i (Big Island)Mauna Loa 7 km!!(Everest 3K, Rainier 4.5K)
Source of the OceanVOLCANOES!
Biggest volcanoin solar system;Tamu Massif
Largest structure built byany living thing
Great Barrier Reef
Seas of the Pacific
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Sea of Cortez
Bering Sea
Coral Sea
Bering SeaCoral Sea
ATLANTIC
At 150 MY it is theyoungest ocean & it’sgrowing (fingernails)
Puerto RicoTrench10,100m
World’s longest mt range
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
ICELANDSeas of the Atlantic
North
Sargasso Sea
The only sea-within-a-sea
INDIAN
The only ocean withMICROCONTINENTSit is also growing (mid-Indian Ridge)
The only ocean witha current… that REVERSESevery 6 months!? Deepest pt
Java Trench10,050
Seas of the Indian Ocean
Arabian Red
ARCTIC shallowestWasn’t until 1957 that the world’s first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, proved the North
Pole wasn’t sitting on a continent (like the south)…that an OCEAN lay beneath the ice. After traversing the polar ice cap, the Nautilus completed its TOP SECRET mission: to enter Soviet
waters and attempt to penetrate naval installations UNDETECTED…stealth mode.
ANTARCTIC“the Southern Ocean?”
The only place where the ocean flows around the earth UNOBSTRUCTED
Weddell
The only place where the ocean flowsaround the earth UNOBSTRUCTED
The Largest Sea
MediterraneanMEDITERRANEAN – only a 1m tide, MAX DEPTH = 5700m
Strait of Gibralter
BLACK - NO tide, MAX DEPTH = 500m, upper 100m is fresh water
CASPIAN
TETHYS
On a side note…
MEDI – TERRA -- NEAN translated from ancient Greek means
MIDDLE -- EARTH
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