The World Ocean: parts, floor and water
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Find the straits of Gibraltar, Drake, Mozambique and the English Channel in the atlas and write which water bodies they connect.
Gibraltar — Mediterranean and Atlantic; Drake — Atlantic and Pacific (near Antarctica); Mozambique — parts of the Indian Ocean (between Madagascar and Africa); English Channel — Atlantic and the North Sea.
2
Open-ocean temperature varies from –2 °C to +29 °C. How many degrees is the range?
31
3
Ocean water below 1 000 m averages 2–3 °C. By how many °C is 3 °C water colder than +17 °C surface water?
14
4
Do ocean currents affect Uzbekistan? Justify your answer.
Hardly: Uzbekistan is very far from the oceans, deep inland, so its climate is dry and sharply continental.