what is the largest ocean in the world?

Answer 1

For the hundredth time - Pacific.

Answer 2

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's five oceans
Location: the body of water between the Southern Ocean, Asia, Australia and the western hemisphere
Area: 155.6 million square km, or about 15 times the size of the US. The Pacific Ocean covers about 28 per cent of the global surface - larger than the total land area of the world
Terrain: the ocean floor in the eastern Pacific is dominated by the East Pacific Rise, while the western Pacific is dissected by deep trenches, including the Mariana Trench, which is the world's deepest place
Deepest point: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench - 11,022m

Answer 3

Pacific Ocean

Answer 4

Pacific Ocean

Answer 5

Though generally recognized as several 'separate' oceans, these waters comprise one global, interconnected body of salt water often referred to as the World Ocean or global ocean.[1][2] This concept of a global ocean as a continuous body of water with relatively free interchange among its parts is of fundamental importance to oceanography.[3] The major oceanic divisions are defined in part by the continents, various archipelagos, and other criteria: these divisions are (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean (which is sometimes subsumed as the southern portions of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans), and the Arctic Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic). The Pacific and Atlantic may be further subdivided by the equator into northerly and southerly portions. Smaller regions of the oceans are called seas, gulfs, bays and other names. There are also some smaller bodies of saltwater that are totally landlocked and not interconnected with the World Ocean, such as the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Great Salt Lake – though they may be referred to as 'seas', they are actually salt lakes.

Geologically, an ocean is an area of oceanic crust covered by water. Oceanic crust is the thin layer of solidified volcanic basalt that covers the Earth's mantle where there are no continents. From this perspective, there are three oceans today: the World Ocean and the Caspian and Black Seas, the latter two having been formed by the collision of Cimmeria with Laurasia. The Mediterranean Sea is very nearly a discrete ocean, being connected to the World Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, and indeed several times over the last few million years movement of the African continent has closed the strait off entirely. The Black Sea is connected to the Mediterranean through the Bosporus, but this is in effect a natural canal cut through continental rock some 7,000 years ago, rather than a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.



BASICALLY THE PACIFIC.


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Answer 6

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the world's 5 oceans, followed by the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antartic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean. It covers a total of 155.557 million sq km, is about 15 times the size of the US and covers about 28% of the global surface; larger than the total land area of the world.

Answer 7

Largest Ocean
The Pacific Ocean takes the award for being the largest ocean in the world. It covers almost a third of the Earth's surface and goes from the Bering Sea in the Arctic north to the icy waters of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south.

Answer 8

The Pacific is the world's largest ocean followed by the Atlantic.

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Pacific Ocean

Answer 10

There's actually only one ocean and they are all connected through complex physical, chemical, and biological interactions that we call Oceanography...

But yes the Pacific is the largest but eventually in 200 million years, the Atlantic will become large as the tectonic plates collide in the mid-Pacific...

Answer 11

The Pacific, but the largest ocean ever was the tethys ocean. It covered over half the globe at its peak.