What is the difference between a an ocean and a sea?

Answer 1

The sea is surrounded by land. Land is surrounded by the Ocean. Thus, sea's are inland, ocean's are not.

Answer 2

Ocean is a big reservoir of water than a sea..... Oceans connect the continents and there are 5 oceans
1. The Indian ocean
2. Pacific
3. Antarctic
4. Arctic
5. Atlantic

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Answer 3

I hope this will be more comprehensive to your part: take time to diffrentiate its technicalities and digest it in... =)

an OCEAN other than "it's bigger than a sea..." is:

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ocean

n 1: a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere 2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: sea]

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whereas

SEA other than "it's smaller than an ocean, or it belongs to the ocean" is:

sea  /si/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
2. a division of these waters, of considerable extent, more or less definitely marked off by land boundaries: the North Sea.

BOTTOMLINE... they are quite similar and interchangeable... but are truely distinct... EXCEPT that both are salt water.

Answer 4

Many seas combine to make an ocean.

Answer 5

A sea is a chunk of water usually or partially enclosed by land, and an ocean is the big water that spans between continents.

Answer 6

Combinations of river is a sea and combination of sea's is called oceans

Answer 7

ocean = biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig sea

Answer 8

seas merges to form an ocean while an ocean
doent; it is the end point of all types of water bodies such as rivers,streams,seas,etc

Answer 9

sea is a small part of ocean.......

Answer 10

An ocean is bigger.