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What is the oldest ocean basin?
Pacific Ocean
What is the Pacific basin?
the area around the Pacific Ocean. It has a port.
What is Pacific basin?
the area around the Pacific Ocean. It has a port.
Why is the pacific ocean important to us?
The ocean provides food, oil and transportation.
In which ocean basin are most trenches found?
Most trenches are found in the Pacific Ocean basin. This is because the Pacific Plate is the largest tectonic plate on Earth and is actively subducting beneath other plates, leading to the formation of deep ocean trenches. The Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the world, is located in the Pacific Ocean.
Is a mid ocean ridge a long narrow depression located in a deep ocean basin?
No. A mid-ocean ridge is a chain of mountains and volcanoes in an ocean basin at a site of sea floor spreading.
The ocean basin is rimmed by the most subduction zones?
The Pacific Ocean, you can see this very clearly by the "Ring of Fire"
Which ocean is affected by the ring of fire?
The Pacific Ocean is affected by the Ring of Fire, which is an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur due to the movement of tectonic plates.
Is the Amazon drainage Basin in northeastern Brazil in Atlantic ocean or the Pacific ocean?
Atlanitc
What ocean basin is the most trenches found?
Pacific. (it is the last option to bubble in)
Which basin is getting larger with time Why?
The Atlantic basin is getting larger with time because it is spreading from the mid-Altantic ridge. The edges of the basin are not subducting like, for example, the Pacific plate.
What ocean does New Zealand lie on?
New Zealand is located in the South Pacific Ocean.
