{"id":2478,"date":"2020-04-29T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bildwpaquabokalocal.local\/?page_id=2478\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T11:31:48","slug":"the-world-sea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/aquarium-boka\/fascinating-facts\/the-world-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Fascinating Facts on the World Sea<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3834\" src=\"http:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Sea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"1732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Sea.jpg 693w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Sea-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Sea-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/World-Sea-370x925.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With so much of the Earth\u2019s surface taken up by the World Ocean, it\u2019s evident how vital these marine environments are to the planet, and how much there still is to be explored.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The world\u2019s oceans contain enough water to fill a cube with edges over 1,000 kilometres in length.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The area of the World Ocean is about 361.9 million square kilometres and its volume is approximately 1,335 billion cubic kilometres.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mariana Trench is the deepest known area of Earth\u2019s oceans. It has the deepest point of around 11 kilometres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mariana Trench is located to the east of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. More people have been to the moon than to the Mariana Trench. Just 3 people have managed to make it to the Mariana Trench, because of the extreme conditions there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The largest ocean on the Earth is the Pacific Ocean, covering around 30% of the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It covers around 30% of the Earth\u2019s surface. The name \u201cPacific Ocean\u201d comes from the Latin name <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tepre Pacificum<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, meaning \u201cpeaceful sea\u201d. At its widest point, from Indonesia all the way to Colombia, the Pacific Ocean is wider (almost 20,000 km) by more than 5 times the diameter of the Moon.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The world\u2019s longest mountain chain is underwater, with a total length of 65,000 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earth\u2019s longest chain of mountains, the Mid-Ocean Ridge, is almost entirely beneath the ocean, stretching across a distance of 65,000 kilometres. It\u2019s said that this mountain chain is less explored than the surface of Venus or Mars.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The ocean is home to 94% of all life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As so much of the Earth\u2019s surface is underwater, it comes as no surprise that marine species outnumber those on land. But, it\u2019s an incredible 94% of the Earth\u2019s living species that exist within the oceans. That means those of us who live on land are part of a very, very small minority.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Less than 5% of the oceans have been explored.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man has explored less than five per cent of the Earth\u2019s oceans. As researchers strive to discover more, we\u2019re continually getting to know our oceans better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>We still only know a fraction of the marine species in our oceans.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the World Register of Marine Species, there are now 240,470 accepted species, but this is believed to be just a small proportion of the species that exist, with new marine life being discovered every day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The world\u2019s largest living structure \u2013 the Great Barrier Reef, with a total length of 2,600 km, is visible from space.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Measuring around 2,600 km, it can even be seen even from the Moon!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over 70% of our planet\u2019s oxygen is produced by the ocean\u2019s living organisms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s thought that between 70 and 80 per cent of the oxygen we breathe is produced by marine plants, nearly all of which are marine algae.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/aquarium-boka\/fascinating-facts\/\">Fascinating facts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating Facts on the World Sea Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth\u2019s surface. With so much of the Earth\u2019s surface taken up by the World Ocean, it\u2019s evident how vital these marine environments are to the planet, and how much there still is to be explored. The world\u2019s oceans contain enough water to fill a cube with edges&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2589,"parent":2481,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2478\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}