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    Sea (With The Definite Article) Is The Interconnected System of The Earth's

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    The sea is a large body of salty water that surrounds land and is interconnected as one global ocean or divided into principal sections. It moderates Earth's climate and plays important roles in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. The sea is conventionally divided into four named oceans and one other section, and contains diverse ecosystems from coral reefs to hydrothermal vents. Life originated in the sea and the first plants and animals evolved there. The sea is essential to human trade, travel, mining, power generation, and culture but is also threatened by pollution, overfishing, and climate change impacts like acidification.

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    The sea is a large body of salty water that surrounds land and is interconnected as one global ocean or divided into principal sections. It moderates Earth's climate and plays important roles in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. The sea is conventionally divided into four named oceans and one other section, and contains diverse ecosystems from coral reefs to hydrothermal vents. Life originated in the sea and the first plants and animals evolved there. The sea is essential to human trade, travel, mining, power generation, and culture but is also threatened by pollution, overfishing, and climate change impacts like acidification.

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    The sea is a large body of salty water that surrounds land and is interconnected as one global ocean or divided into principal sections. It moderates Earth's climate and plays important roles in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. The sea is conventionally divided into four named oceans and one other section, and contains diverse ecosystems from coral reefs to hydrothermal vents. Life originated in the sea and the first plants and animals evolved there. The sea is essential to human trade, travel, mining, power generation, and culture but is also threatened by pollution, overfishing, and climate change impacts like acidification.

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    The sea is a large body of salty water that surrounds land and is interconnected as one global ocean or divided into principal sections. It moderates Earth's climate and plays important roles in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles. The sea is conventionally divided into four named oceans and one other section, and contains diverse ecosystems from coral reefs to hydrothermal vents. Life originated in the sea and the first plants and animals evolved there. The sea is essential to human trade, travel, mining, power generation, and culture but is also threatened by pollution, overfishing, and climate change impacts like acidification.

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    A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land.

    [1] More broadly, the


    sea (with the definite article) is the interconnected system of the Earth's salty, oceanic waters
    considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions. The sea moderates
    the Earth's climate and has important roles in the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle.
    Although the sea has been travelled and explored since prehistory, the modern scientific study of the
    seaoceanographydates broadly to the British Challenger expedition of the 1870s.[2] The sea is
    conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sectionsincluding the IHO's four named
    oceans[3] (the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic) and theSouthern Ocean;[4] smaller, second-order
    sections, such as the Mediterranean, are known as seas.
    Owing to the present state of continental drift, the Northern Hemisphere is now fairly equally divided
    between land and sea (a ratio of about 2:3) but the South is overwhelmingly oceanic (1:4.7).
    [5]

    Salinity in the open ocean is generally in a narrow band around 3.5% by mass, although this can

    vary in more landlocked waters, near the mouths of large rivers, or at great depths. About 85% of the
    solids in the open sea are sodium chloride. Deep-sea currents are produced by differences in salinity
    and temperature. Surface currents are formed by the friction of waves produced by the wind and
    by tides, the changes in localsea level produced by the gravity of the Moon and Sun. The direction of
    all of these is governed by surface and submarineland masses and by the rotation of the
    Earth (the Coriolis effect).
    Former changes in the sea levels have left continental shelves, shallow areas in the sea close to
    land. These nutrient-rich waters teem with life, which provide humans with substantial supplies
    of foodmainly fish, but also shellfish, mammals, andseaweedwhich are both harvested in the
    wild and farmed. The most diverse areas surround great tropical coral reefs.Whaling in the deep sea
    was once common but whales' dwindling numbers prompted international conservation efforts and
    finally a moratorium on most commercial hunting. Oceanography has established that not all life is
    restricted to the sunlit surface waters: even under enormous depths and pressures, nutrients
    streaming from hydrothermal vents support their ownunique ecosystem. Life may have started there
    and aquatic microbial mats are generally credited with the oxygenation ofEarth's atmosphere;
    both plants and animals first evolved in the sea.
    The sea is an essential aspect of human trade, travel, mineral extraction, and power generation. This
    has also made it essential to warfare and left major cities exposed
    to earthquakes and volcanoes from nearby faults; powerful tsunami waves;
    and hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones produced in the tropics. This importance and duality has
    affected human culture, from early sea gods to the epic poetry of Homer to the changes induced by
    the Columbian Exchange, from Viking funerals toBasho's haikus to hyperrealist marine art, and
    inspiring music ranging from the shanties in The Complaynt of Scotland to Rimsky-Korsakov's "The

    Sea and Sinbad's Ship" to A-mei's "Listen to the Sea". It is the scene of leisure
    activities including swimming, diving, surfing, and sailing. However, population
    growth, industrialization, and intensive farminghave all contributed to present-day marine pollution.
    Atmospheric carbon dioxide is being absorbed in increasing amounts, lowering its pH in a process
    known as ocean acidification. The shared nature of the sea has made overfishing an increasing
    problem.

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