Page 6 - Guide to the Oceans

marks the line where two tectonic
plates arc pulllng apart and where
deepest depths while red shows
mid-ocean ridge that nms down
a new area of seabed Is forming
a result. Dark blue Indicates the
This sonar image shows the East
ONE OCEAN
Pactllc Rise, which is part ol the
Pacilic ts slowly gelling wider as
between 1hc111. This part of the
the Pactllc Ocean. The ridge
the shallowest areas.
GROWING OCEANS
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I11cl1 ,11 /111111 liu~. ,,cti.mfr
li11rs i,/ \\.lkt111ic ,rclh-if)·
f>(l1111,J,1rlrs/(l/liJ1 1 ·
the Gull Stream. which carries warm wa1cr Imm
1h,•y
n 1 r/d/11 tlbiJIII.
scll 'llllih ,m· 1101 liJl 1
has much mtldcr winters due tu a current c,illcd
D.ith'1I llfh'S /1111/c111L• pl1!1,')
,111,1,,/,114 •/Ji)umforln 1/1111
have a similar "latltud,•" (sec map). But London
;md away from the ocean, frct.•1.1. ·s up in wlntl'r
have shnllar cltma1cs bcrnusc they arc rnuHhly
weather on lt1nd. London t1ml Moscow should
the Caribbean tu Britain. Moscow. far Inland
Occnn currents Hrca1ly Influence dlmmc and
with temperatures as low as 14"F (- I0"C).
the same dlst.111cc away Imm the Equawr -
CURRENT W BATHER
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