ASSIGNMENT
Topic :
Identification of Natural Resources for Science Teaching
and Learning SEA
SEA
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole part by land more
broadly the sea is the interconnected system of the Earths salty, oceanic waters
considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions. The sea
moderates the Earths climate and has important roles of the water cycle, carbon cycle
and nitrogen cycle. The sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic
sections named the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Artic.
Seas are essential for human development and trade, travel, mineral extraction
and power generation. This has also made it essential to warfare and left major cities
exposed to earthquakes and volcanoes from nearby faults, powerful tsunami waves, and
hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones produced in the tropics. It is the scene of leisure
activities including swimming diving, surfing and sailing. Atmospheric carbon dioxide
is being absorbed in increasing amounts, lowering its pH in a process known as ocean
acidification. The shared nature of the sea has made overfishing an increasing problem.
Owing to the present state of continental drift, the Northern Hemisphere is now
fairly equally divided between the land and sea. But the south in overwhelmingly
oceanic about 85% of the solids in the open sea are sodium chloride. Former changes
in the sea levels have left continental shelves, shallow areas in the sea closed to land.
These nutrient. Rich waters team with life, which provide humans with substantial
supplies of food-mainly fish, but also shell fish, mammals, and seaweed which are both
harvested in the wild and farmed. Both plants and animals first evolved in the sea.
There are no sharp distinction between seas and oceans. Seas are generally
larger than lakes and contain salt water. , but the sea of Galilee is a fresh water lake. In
International laid, the united nations convention on the law the sea slates that all the
ocean is the sea
Earth is the only known planet with a seas of liquid water on its surface it is still
unclear where Earths water came from but seen from space, our planet appears as a
blue marble of its various forms, ice caps, clouds. The underground reservoir various
states of the water cycles, containing the fresh water encountered and used by most
terrestrial life, vapour is the air, the cloud it slowly forms, the rain falling from them,
and the lakes and rivers spontaneously formed as its waters flow again and again to the
sea.
Sea water is invariably salty and although its degree of saltiness can vary, about
90% of the water in the ocean has 34-35 of dissolved solids per liter, producing salinity
between 3.4 and 3.5%. the solutes in ocean water come both from inflowing river
water and from the ocean floor. Sodium and chloride make up about 85% other soltes
include metal ions such as magnesium and calcium and native ions such as magnesium
and calcium and negative ions such as sulfate, carbonate and bromides. In the absence
of other pollution, sea water would not be harmful to drink except that it is much too
saline, similarly, it cannot be used for irrigating most plants without being desalinated.
For scientific and technical purposes a standardized form of artificial seawater in often
used.
MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE:Sea Temperature chiefly depends on the amount of solar radiation it absorbs. In
the tropics where sunlight falls more directly, the temperature of the surface layers can
to over 30oc. the Cold Water is the deep sea moves back towards the equator before
welling up again to the surface. Deep seawater has a temperature between 2 nd 5oc.
activity produces oxygen, which dissolves into the waters oxygen saturation is lower
during the night and much lower in the deep sea. Below as depth of about 200m there
is insufficient light for photosynthesis and consequently little dissolved oxygen. Below
the anaerobic bacteria break down falling organic material, producing hydrogen sulfide.
It is projected that global warming will reduce oxygen both in surface and deep water
due to oxygens decreased solubility as temperature increase and increased oceanic
stratification.
WEAVES.
Ocean surface waves are oscillations caused by the friction from air moving
across the surface of the water. This friction transfers energy and forms surface waves
in the water perpendicular to the direction of the wind. The top of a wave is known as
its crest and its foot as its trough, the distance between two crests in the wavelength.
The smallest waves are called ripples.
CONCLUSION
Sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or is part by land,
the sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections named the
Atlantic, pacific, Indian and Artic. Seas are essential for human developed and trade,
travel, mineral extraction and power generation.
between seas and oceans. Seas are generally layer than lakes and contain salt water. In
the absence of other pollution, sea water would not harmful to drink except that it is
much too saline. For scientific and technical purposes a standardized form of artificial
seawater is often used.
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