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OceanOcean Ocean Body of salt water covering most of Earth This article is about natural science aspects of Earth's oceans. For more on human experience, history and culture of oceans, see Sea. For other uses, see Ocean (disambiguation). The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth.[8] The ocean is conventionally divided into large bodies of water, which are also referred to as oceans (in descending order by area: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic/Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean),[9][10][11] and are themselves mostly divided into seas, gulfs and subsequent bodies of water. The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water[8] and is the primary component of Earth's hydrosphere, acting as… (Source: Wikipedia)
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