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What is the hydrosphere?
What is the hydrosphere?
- The area covered by water on the earth's surface (correct)
- The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere
- The layer of the atmosphere where water is present
- The process of water exchange between the atmosphere and the oceans
What percentage of the earth's area is covered by water?
What percentage of the earth's area is covered by water?
- 70.8% (correct)
- 29.2%
- 2.5%
- 96.5%
What is the source of the term 'ocean'?
What is the source of the term 'ocean'?
- Latin word 'Oceanus' meaning salty water
- Greek word 'Oceanus' meaning enormous river encircling the earth (correct)
- Latin word 'Oceanus' meaning enormous river encircling the earth
- Greek word 'Oceanus' meaning salty river
Where is the Pacific Ocean located?
Where is the Pacific Ocean located?
Which one among these constitutes the hydrosphere?
Which one among these constitutes the hydrosphere?
What is the percentage of fresh water on earth?
What is the percentage of fresh water on earth?
Which ocean is named after a figure in Greek mythology?
Which ocean is named after a figure in Greek mythology?
Which ocean is the warmest in the world?
Which ocean is the warmest in the world?
Which ocean is known for its turbulent waters?
Which ocean is known for its turbulent waters?
Which ocean lies entirely within the Arctic Circle?
Which ocean lies entirely within the Arctic Circle?
Which ocean is the second largest in the world?
Which ocean is the second largest in the world?
What is the average depth of the Pacific Ocean?
What is the average depth of the Pacific Ocean?
Which ocean has the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
Which ocean has the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
Where is the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without any shore, located?
Where is the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without any shore, located?
What is the largest island in the Indian ocean?
What is the largest island in the Indian ocean?
What is a marginal sea?
What is a marginal sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean?
What connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean?
What is the main cause of oceanic trenches?
What is the main cause of oceanic trenches?
Which of the following is an example of a submarine canyon?
Which of the following is an example of a submarine canyon?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes a guyot?
What is the major source of heat energy for the oceans?
What is the major source of heat energy for the oceans?
Which factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to its unequal distribution of land and water?
Which factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to its unequal distribution of land and water?
What do warm ocean currents do to affected areas?
What do warm ocean currents do to affected areas?
What is the average temperature at approximately 40° latitude in oceans?
What is the average temperature at approximately 40° latitude in oceans?
Where is the highest temperature in oceans recorded?
Where is the highest temperature in oceans recorded?
Why does the northern hemisphere record higher temperatures than the southern hemisphere oceans?
Why does the northern hemisphere record higher temperatures than the southern hemisphere oceans?
What characterizes the vertical distribution of temperature in oceans?
What characterizes the vertical distribution of temperature in oceans?
Which factor results in longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
Which factor results in longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What is the main source of heating and cooling processes for sea water?
What is the main source of heating and cooling processes for sea water?
What is the thickness of the thermocline layer in the ocean?
What is the thickness of the thermocline layer in the ocean?
What percentage of the total volume of ocean water is carried by the pycnocline layer?
What percentage of the total volume of ocean water is carried by the pycnocline layer?
What is the salinity of the average Indian Ocean water?
What is the salinity of the average Indian Ocean water?
In which zone of the ocean is the highest salinity observed?
In which zone of the ocean is the highest salinity observed?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
At what depth do the pycnocline, thermocline, and halocline occupy almost the same zones?
At what depth do the pycnocline, thermocline, and halocline occupy almost the same zones?
In which water body is the highest salinity recorded?
In which water body is the highest salinity recorded?
What characterizes the bottom layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the bottom layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What is the highest average salinity recorded among the given options?
What is the highest average salinity recorded among the given options?
Which zone in the oceans records the minimum salinity?
Which zone in the oceans records the minimum salinity?
What percentage of the earth's area is covered by water?
What percentage of the earth's area is covered by water?
What is the major source of heat energy for the oceans?
What is the major source of heat energy for the oceans?
Where is the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without any shore, located?
Where is the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without any shore, located?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes a guyot?
What is the average temperature at approximately 40° latitude in oceans?
What is the average temperature at approximately 40° latitude in oceans?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
Which ocean is known for its violent storms?
Which ocean is known for its violent storms?
What connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean?
What connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean?
What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?
What is the largest island in the Indian Ocean?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean?
What is the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean?
Which ocean is named after a figure in Greek mythology?
Which ocean is named after a figure in Greek mythology?
Where does the International Date Line pass through?
Where does the International Date Line pass through?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes a guyot?
What connects the southern Atlantic ocean with the southeastern part of the Pacific ocean?
What connects the southern Atlantic ocean with the southeastern part of the Pacific ocean?
Which ocean lies entirely within the Arctic Circle?
Which ocean lies entirely within the Arctic Circle?
What covers about 19.8% of water on the earth's surface?
What covers about 19.8% of water on the earth's surface?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
Where is the Challenger Deep located?
Where is the Challenger Deep located?
What is the primary factor responsible for the formation of mid-oceanic ridges?
What is the primary factor responsible for the formation of mid-oceanic ridges?
Which ocean contains the Emperor Seamount, an extension of the Hawaiian Islands?
Which ocean contains the Emperor Seamount, an extension of the Hawaiian Islands?
What characterizes submarine canyons?
What characterizes submarine canyons?
What is a guyot?
What is a guyot?
What factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to unequal distribution of land and water?
What factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to unequal distribution of land and water?
Which ocean current raises the temperature of the eastern part of North America and the west coast of Europe?
Which ocean current raises the temperature of the eastern part of North America and the west coast of Europe?
What is responsible for longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What is responsible for longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
In which ocean are atolls like those found in Maldives and the Chagos archipelago located?
In which ocean are atolls like those found in Maldives and the Chagos archipelago located?
What is the highest temperature recorded at approximately 40° latitude in oceans?
What is the highest temperature recorded at approximately 40° latitude in oceans?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What characterizes the bottom layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the bottom layer of ocean water?
What is the thickness of the thermocline layer in the ocean?
What is the thickness of the thermocline layer in the ocean?
Where is the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without any shore, located?
Where is the Sargasso Sea, the only sea in the world without any shore, located?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What is the highest average salinity recorded among the given options?
What is the highest average salinity recorded among the given options?
Which zone in the oceans records the minimum salinity?
Which zone in the oceans records the minimum salinity?
Which ocean has the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
Which ocean has the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
Where is the highest temperature in oceans recorded?
Where is the highest temperature in oceans recorded?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes a guyot?
What is the largest island in the Indian ocean?
What is the largest island in the Indian ocean?
What percentage of fresh water on earth is carried by pycnocline layer?
What percentage of fresh water on earth is carried by pycnocline layer?
What percentage of the earth's area is covered by water?
What percentage of the earth's area is covered by water?
Which ocean is bigger than all the continents put together?
Which ocean is bigger than all the continents put together?
What is the term for a continuous exchange of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the continents?
What is the term for a continuous exchange of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the continents?
What percentage of water on the earth is salty and found in seas and oceans?
What percentage of water on the earth is salty and found in seas and oceans?
Where is Challenger Deep located, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
Where is Challenger Deep located, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
What is the depth of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench?
What is the depth of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench?
Where is the Horizon Deep located?
Where is the Horizon Deep located?
What is the height range of seamounts?
What is the height range of seamounts?
Which ocean contains the highest number of explored deeps?
Which ocean contains the highest number of explored deeps?
What characterizes submarine canyons?
What characterizes submarine canyons?
What is a characteristic of guyots?
What is a characteristic of guyots?
Which factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to unequal distribution of land and water?
Which factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to unequal distribution of land and water?
What causes longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What causes longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is responsible for longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What is responsible for longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What is a marginal sea?
What is a marginal sea?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes the Southern Ocean?
What characterizes the Southern Ocean?
What is the primary factor responsible for the formation of oceanic trenches?
What is the primary factor responsible for the formation of oceanic trenches?
Where is the Molloy Deep, the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean, located?
Where is the Molloy Deep, the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean, located?
What characterizes the Bering Strait?
What characterizes the Bering Strait?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
In which ocean are atolls like those found in Maldives and the Chagos archipelago located?
In which ocean are atolls like those found in Maldives and the Chagos archipelago located?
What is responsible for longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
What is responsible for longitudinal variations in ocean water temperature?
Which factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to its unequal distribution of land and water?
Which factor affects the temperature distribution in oceans due to its unequal distribution of land and water?
What causes distinct zones where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What causes distinct zones where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What characterizes a guyot?
What characterizes a guyot?
Which ocean contains the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
Which ocean contains the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What is the approximate thickness of the thermocline layer in the ocean?
What is the approximate thickness of the thermocline layer in the ocean?
What is the upper limit of salinity considered to demarcate brackish water in terms of ppt?
What is the upper limit of salinity considered to demarcate brackish water in terms of ppt?
Where is the highest salinity observed in the oceans on average?
Where is the highest salinity observed in the oceans on average?
What is the vertical distribution of salinity like in the oceans?
What is the vertical distribution of salinity like in the oceans?
Which layer carries about 80% of the total volume of ocean water?
Which layer carries about 80% of the total volume of ocean water?
What causes the highest salinity in the North Sea despite its higher latitude?
What causes the highest salinity in the North Sea despite its higher latitude?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
In which sea is the highest average salinity recorded?
In which sea is the highest average salinity recorded?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
What causes a distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean?
"Pycno" in pycnocline layer refers to which property?
"Pycno" in pycnocline layer refers to which property?
"Photic zone" is associated with which layer of ocean water?
"Photic zone" is associated with which layer of ocean water?
What is the primary source of ocean salts according to the passage?
What is the primary source of ocean salts according to the passage?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What characterizes the surface layer of ocean water?
What is the primary factor responsible for the formation of mid-oceanic ridges?
What is the primary factor responsible for the formation of mid-oceanic ridges?
Where is the highest temperature in oceans recorded?
Where is the highest temperature in oceans recorded?
What percentage of the total volume of ocean water is carried by the pycnocline layer?
What percentage of the total volume of ocean water is carried by the pycnocline layer?
Which zone in the oceans records the minimum salinity?
Which zone in the oceans records the minimum salinity?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What factor influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is unique about the Sargasso Sea?
What is the average salinity of the Indian Ocean?
What is the average salinity of the Indian Ocean?
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Study Notes
Introduction to Hydrosphere
- The hydrosphere is the region of the Earth where water is present in all its forms.
- Water covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface.
Oceans
- The Pacific Ocean is located between the western coast of the Americas and the eastern coast of Asia.
- The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the five oceans, covering an area of approximately 155.6 million km².
- The Atlantic Ocean is named after Atlas, a figure in Greek mythology.
- The Indian Ocean is the warmest in the world.
- The Arctic Ocean is known for its turbulent waters.
- The Arctic Ocean lies entirely within the Arctic Circle.
- The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest in the world.
- The average depth of the Pacific Ocean is approximately 3,970 meters.
- The Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench in the world, is located in the Pacific Ocean.
Seas and Other Water Bodies
- The Sargasso Sea is the only sea in the world without any shore, located in the North Atlantic Ocean.
- The largest island in the Indian Ocean is Madagascar.
- A marginal sea is a sea that is partially enclosed by land.
- The Sargasso Sea is unique because it has no shore and is characterized by a high salinity.
Oceanic Features
- The Bering Strait connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
- The main cause of oceanic trenches is the movement of tectonic plates.
- The Monterey Canyon is an example of a submarine canyon.
- A guyot is an underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top.
Ocean Temperature and Salinity
- The main source of heat energy for the oceans is solar radiation.
- The unequal distribution of land and water affects the temperature distribution in oceans.
- Warm ocean currents increase the temperature of affected areas.
- The average temperature at approximately 40° latitude in oceans is around 10°C.
- The highest temperature in oceans is recorded near the equator.
- The northern hemisphere records higher temperatures than the southern hemisphere oceans due to the unequal distribution of land and water.
- The vertical distribution of temperature in oceans is characterized by a decrease in temperature with depth.
- The longitudinal variation in ocean water temperature is due to the unequal distribution of land and water.
- The main source of heating and cooling processes for sea water is the atmosphere.
- The thermocline layer is approximately 1,000 meters thick.
- The pycnocline layer carries around 20% of the total volume of ocean water.
- The salinity of the average Indian Ocean water is around 35 ppt.
- The highest salinity is observed in the deep-sea water zone.
- The factor that influences the salinity, temperature, and density of ocean water is the concentration of dissolved salts.
- At around 1,000 meters depth, the pycnocline, thermocline, and halocline occupy almost the same zones.
- The highest salinity is recorded in the Red Sea.
- The bottom layer of ocean water is characterized by a high pressure and low temperature.
- The surface layer of ocean water is characterized by a high temperature and low pressure.
- A distinct zone where salinity increases sharply in the ocean is due to the concentration of dissolved salts.
- The minimum salinity is recorded in the polar regions.
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