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As cold, dense water sinks and flows beneath warm ocean water.

In the answer section you repeat the question as a statement and then say 'false' is the correct answer!

Both oceans and bays are large bodies of water. Oceans are the largest bodies of water in the globe, while a bay is surrounded by land on three sides. Oceans have no land demarcations and they cover nearly three-fourths of the Earth's surface. There are four oceans, which are the Artic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean. There are countless bays. Examples include the Bay of Bengal and the Hudson Bay. Bays are also known as seas, bights, or gulfs. Oceans create high and rough waves, while the waves of a bay can be small. Oceans also have more depth than bays.

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The East Coast refers to the easternmost states which stretch from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to Canada in the north. The East coast is also known as the Eastern Seaboard. About 36 percent of the U.S. population resides in the East Coast states. The states of the East coast include Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. The West coast refers to the westernmost coastal states touching the Pacific Ocean. It is also referred to as the Pacific Coast. About 17 percent of the U.S. population resides in the West Coast states. The states in this coast include California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii.

Even if an ocean and a sea are both large water bodies, they do have some significance between each other. Well, lets get to the bottom of this!(pun included).The only similarity the two have is that they are salt water bodies. In terms of definition, an Ocean is a vast body of Salt water that cover three-fourth of the earth's surface wheras a sea is a body of water mostly suurouned by land. Other differences are: Compared to an Ocean, a Sea is smaller in size Ocean beds are are almost impossible to reach There are a number of seas but only five oceans in the world. These are only but a few of the differences between an ocean and a sea

To answer this question, we have to be really specific as to where the Ring of Fire is located at. Out of the given choices, we can say choose letters B, C and E. The Ring of Fire surrounds the Pacific Ocean and it stretches from New Zealand, Asia, Aleutian Islands of Alaska and western part of North and South America. It run 40,000 kilometers and a horseshoe shaped area wherein a huge volcanic and earthquake activities are recorded. There have been 452 active and dormant volcanoes around or inside the Pacific Ring of Fire – 75% of which are active volcanoes. Here are some of the following areas where major volcanoes in the Ring of Fire can be found: The Andes which is in South America and where the Ojos del Salado volcano is located, Popocatepetl located near Mexico City, Mt. Saint Helens located in North America and Aleutian Islands located in Alaska.

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The names of the four oceans are Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic. It is worthy to note however that we now recognize one additional ocean – the Antarctic Ocean as part of the oceans on Earth. Now, in terms of the question being asked, here are the five oceans’ sizes: The Pacific Ocean is considered to be the largest ocean on Earth –it has a size of 168,723,000 square kilometers and extends from the northern part of Arctic until the Southern Ocean. Its boundaries are Australia and Asia in the west and America in the east. Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean on Earth with 106,400,000 square kilometers in size. The Indian Ocean has an area of 73,556,000 square kilometers and it is bounded by the Indian subcontinent, East Africa, and Australia. The Arctic Ocean has an area of 15,558,000 square kilometers and is also the shallowest among all the oceans on Earth.

The Panama Canal lets ship pass through the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. Principal planning and construction of the Panama Canal began in 1881, but it was untimely put on hold due to engineering problems and high mortality rate. It wasn’t until Panama became an independent country in 1903 did the United States of America start to take over the project. Construction resumed in 1904 and it officially opened on August 15, 1914. Before the Panama Canal was constructed, ships coming from the Atlantic Ocean had to travel around the southern tip of South America just to get to the Pacific Ocean. However, when the project was completed, it shortened the journey to eight to ten hours or by about 11,000 kilometers.

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