Sea Topics


postman1 on April 23rd, 2011

It depends a lot on what ~kind~ of turtle it is, you know Florida has more species of turtle than any other state in the U.S.? That’s a lot of turtles to pick from and a good deal of them can live on both land and water. Knowing as much as you know about it [...]

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postman1 on April 21st, 2011

The weight of sea water really depends on a number of variables, including the temperature, the amount of salt (salinity) and whatever other foreign items may be present, and the depth, thus the pressure. But to get to the basic answer, seawater, at the surface, on average weighs 1027 kg/m3, or just over 64.1 lbs [...]

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postman1 on January 8th, 2010

How Many Oceans Are on Earth? There is only one global ocean. While there is only one global ocean, the seas are geographically divided into the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern (Antarctic) Oceans. These five oceans are not separate bodies of water; they form one continuous oceanic mass. The boundaries between these five oceans [...]

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