### waters:

Ocean
* Most oceans absorb heat
  - cause rain
* Most oceans contain compounds
* Most oceans have distribution
  - effects
  - oxygen
  - production
  - surfaces
  - waves
* Most oceans possess fish
  - sharks
* Most oceans provide breed habitats
  - sources
* Most oceans serve as habitats
  - primary habitats
* Some oceans absorb sunlight.
* Some oceans are part of hydrospheres
  - worlds
  - have zones
  - move jellyfish
  - possess animals.
  * An 'ocean' large area of salt water between continents. Oceans are very big and they join smaller seas together
* Take real measurements such as temperature and wave height and graph the changes.
* absorb a large amount of carbon dioxide
  - both carbon dioxide and heat
* act like the mercury in a barometer, rising in response to reduced air pressure.
* also act as sink for carbon dioxide
  - have layers of water at different temperatures
  - participate in other matter cycles
* always empty into mouths of rivers.
* are a global sink for carbon dioxide
  - key mechanism in transporting heat from the sun around the globe
  - actually many shades of blue, green and even red
* are also a major source of food and employment and balance of trade
  - essential to our economy
  - generators of commerce
  - superhighways for moving commerce
  - very important in regulating the temperature on Earth
  - always slower to cool down or warm up than land areas
* are an economic issue cloaked in environmental concern
  - important part of our earth's ecosystem
  - as deep as space
  - bodies of water
  - by far the largest animal habitat on earth
  - connected to major lakes, watersheds, and waterways
  - critical to all life on Earth
  - dark because water transmits light poorly
  - deeper than deep water wells
  - essential to life, providing food, energy, resources, climate, and oxygen
  - highways for products and people who move by ship
  - home for all sea animals
  - homes for many living things
  - important to life on earth
  - large bodies of salt water which separates deposits of land
  - liquids
* are located in beachs
  - futures
  - globes
  - low areas
  - motion
  - movies
  - planets
  - thes
  - waterfalls
  - low and continents are high relative to one another
  - made of water
  - much more than big pools of salt water
  - normally unowned, accessible to all
  - now mountains
  - one of the largest ecosystems in the world
  - sailing
  - saltiest where they are very hot, such as the Red Sea, or very cold, such as the Arctic
  - significantly cloudier than continents
  - sinks for methyl bromide, for example
  - sources for minerals and other resources
* are the largest among all the water resources
  - surface water bodies that contribute to evaporation
  - life-line of tourism
* are used for diving
  - drinking
  - kayakings
  - swimming
  - travel
  - vast deposits of carbon
  - important to people
  - noisy
  - vital to our survival and help regulate the Earth's temperature and rainfall
  - wets
* become homes.
* can be rough with too much current to swim.
* cause most of the world's weather patterns
  - relatively faint reflected light
* constitute by far the largest reservoir, however.
  - huge deposits of carbon as calcium carbonate deposits
* cover a vast percentage of Earth's surface
  - about three-quarters of the Earth's surface
* cover almost three-fourths of our planet
  - the planet
* cover more than three-quarters of the surface of the Earth
  - two thirds of the surface of our planet
  - two-thirds of the earth's surface
  - most of the Earth's surface
* cover three-fourths of the Earth's surface
  - earth's surface making our planet unique
  - two-thirds of the world's surface
* determine our climate and our weather.
* dives place emphasis on diving skills.
* dominate the Earth's surface and greatly affect daily life.
* drive global and regional climate.
* harbor almost all of the phylum diversities of the animal kingdom.
* has two life-important properties.
* have a lot of nutrients
  - to do with what happens in the weather
  - low albedo, snow a high albedo
* have a major effect on climate, because water in the oceans holds a large amount of heat
  - the climates of continents to the east
  - pattern of circulation
  - global circulation patterns
* heat up and cool down much more slowly than land.
* help maintain stable temperatures on Earth.
* host more varied life forms than dry land environments.
* is lit with star light
  - the closest ocean to that of a river
* make Earth an ideal site for life
  - up over two thirds of the Earth's surface
* metaphor for great depth and breadth.
* moderate temperature variations.
* occasionally contain archipelagos.
* offer other energy sources.
* plan a key role in the Earth's climate because water warms and cools slower than air.
* play a key role in the distribution of heat.
* produce more oxygen and store more carbon than forests.
  - many essential services such as regulating climate and cycling nutrients
* receive more than half of the energy entering the climate system.
* regulate the world's climate and provide more oxygen than the rain forests.
* remain one of the key parts of the climate system that are poorly observed and understood.
* rise and fall.
* see also Oceanography.
* serve a variety of important functions.
  - vast heat reservoirs
* show cooling in the centers of the major basins and warming around the margins.
* show undersea physical features in rich coloring
  - ridges in rich coloring
* sit on thinner, heavier crust.
* store energy.
* stratify just like lakes so that warm, light water sits on top of colder dense water.
* suffer more than just occasional oil spills.
* supply the water for the glaciers
  - world's people with more animal protein than any other source
* support the greatest variety of life on earth, from microscopic plankton to giant whales
* tend to absorb some of the heat from the atmosphere
  - be stable habitats
  - have constant evaporation and clouds formed tended to be thinner
* too receive differing amounts of heat.
* touch every continent and culture, affecting jobs, weather, and wildlife.