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    The document discusses the key characteristics and components of seas and oceans. It notes that seas are large bodies of salty water, with the ocean commonly referring to the wider global sea. Salinity and salt composition varies in seas, with sodium chloride being the most abundant dissolved solid. The ocean moderates climate and is involved in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles through surface interactions and deep currents. A wide variety of marine life exists in seas, inhabiting various ocean habitats from the surface to deep abyssal zones in both cold and warm waters. Throughout history, humans have utilized seas for food, trade, travel, and recreation, but have also caused pollution through various ocean-related activities.

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    The document discusses the key characteristics and components of seas and oceans. It notes that seas are large bodies of salty water, with the ocean commonly referring to the wider global sea. Salinity and salt composition varies in seas, with sodium chloride being the most abundant dissolved solid. The ocean moderates climate and is involved in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles through surface interactions and deep currents. A wide variety of marine life exists in seas, inhabiting various ocean habitats from the surface to deep abyssal zones in both cold and warm waters. Throughout history, humans have utilized seas for food, trade, travel, and recreation, but have also caused pollution through various ocean-related activities.

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    The document discusses the key characteristics and components of seas and oceans. It notes that seas are large bodies of salty water, with the ocean commonly referring to the wider global sea. Salinity and salt composition varies in seas, with sodium chloride being the most abundant dissolved solid. The ocean moderates climate and is involved in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles through surface interactions and deep currents. A wide variety of marine life exists in seas, inhabiting various ocean habitats from the surface to deep abyssal zones in both cold and warm waters. Throughout history, humans have utilized seas for food, trade, travel, and recreation, but have also caused pollution through various ocean-related activities.

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    The document discusses the key characteristics and components of seas and oceans. It notes that seas are large bodies of salty water, with the ocean commonly referring to the wider global sea. Salinity and salt composition varies in seas, with sodium chloride being the most abundant dissolved solid. The ocean moderates climate and is involved in water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles through surface interactions and deep currents. A wide variety of marine life exists in seas, inhabiting various ocean habitats from the surface to deep abyssal zones in both cold and warm waters. Throughout history, humans have utilized seas for food, trade, travel, and recreation, but have also caused pollution through various ocean-related activities.

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    A sea is a large body of salty water. There are particular seas and the sea.

    The sea commonly refers to


    the ocean, the wider body of seawater. Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of
    the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea), or certain large, nearly landlocked bodies of water.

    The salinity of water bodies varies widely, being lower near the surface and the mouths of large rivers
    and higher in the depths of the ocean; however, the relative proportions of dissolved salts vary little
    across the oceans. The most abundant solid dissolved in seawater is sodium chloride. The water also
    contains salts of magnesium, calcium, potassium, and mercury, amongst many other elements, some in
    minute concentrations.

    The ocean moderates Earth's climate and has important roles in the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles.
    The surface of water interacts with the atmosphere, exchanging properties such as particles and
    temperature, as well as currents. Surface currents are the water currents that are produced by the
    atmosphere's currents and its winds blowing over the surface of the water, producing wind waves,
    setting up through drag slow but stable circulations of water, as in the case of the ocean sustaining deep-
    sea ocean currents. Deep-sea currents, known together as the global conveyor belt, carry cold water
    from near the poles to every ocean and significantly influence Earth's climate. Tides, the generally twice-
    daily rise and fall of sea levels, are caused by Earth's rotation and the gravitational effects of the Moon
    and, to a lesser extent, of the Sun. Tides may have a very high range in bays or estuaries. Submarine
    earthquakes arising from tectonic plate movements under the oceans can lead to destructive tsunamis,
    as can volcanoes, huge landslides, or the impact of large meteorites.

    A wide variety of organisms, including bacteria, protists, algae, plants, fungi, and animals, lives in the
    seas, which offers a wide range of marine habitats and ecosystems, ranging vertically from the sunlit
    surface and shoreline to the great depths and pressures of the cold, dark abyssal zone, and in latitude
    from the cold waters under polar ice caps to the warm waters of coral reefs in tropical regions. Many of
    the major groups of organisms evolved in the sea and life may have started there.

    The seas have been an integral element for humans throughout history and culture. Humans harnessing
    and studying the seas have been recorded since ancient times and evidenced well into prehistory, while
    its modern scientific study is called oceanography and maritime space is governed by the law of the sea,
    with admiralty law regulating human interactions at sea. The seas provide substantial supplies of food
    for humans, mainly fish, but also shellfish, mammals and seaweed, whether caught by fishermen or
    farmed underwater. Other human uses of the seas include trade, travel, mineral extraction, power
    generation, warfare, and leisure activities such as swimming, sailing, and scuba diving. Many of these
    activities create marine pollution.

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