Seas Flashcards

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Name the oceans

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Oceans cover about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. The huge body of salt water on the Earth’s surface is divided into four major oceans: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and Indian Ocean

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Greek ancient seven seas

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Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Black Sea
Adriatic Sea
Caspian Sea
Persian Gulf
Indian Ocean
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3
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Name seas in the Mediterranean Sea

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Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea

Alboran Sea
Balearic Sea
Catalan Sea
Cilician Sea
Gulf of Sidra
Ionian Sea
Levantine Sea
Libyan Sea
Ligurian Sea
Sea of Sardinia
Sea of Sicily
Tyrrhenian Sea
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Name seas in the Aegean Sea

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Myrtoan Sea
Sea of Crete
Thracian Sea

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5
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Sea between Greenland and Iceland

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Denmark Strait

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Which sea connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea?

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Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, and in the context of classical antiquity as the Propontis (Greek: Προποντίς), is the inland sea, entirely within the borders of Turkey, that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating Turkey’s Asian and European parts.

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7
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Name the inland seas

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Sea of Marama

Black Sea

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8
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Name coloured seas

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Black
White
Yellow
Red

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9
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What connects the Marama Sea to the Black Sea?

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The Dardanelles

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10
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What connects the Aegean to the Marmara sea?

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The Bosphorus Strait

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11
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Seas around the U.K.?

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Irish Sea (Celtic Sea, Bristol Channel, 
English Channel
Celtic Sea
North Sea (to the east)
Atlantic Ocean
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12
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Primary in flows to North Sea

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Baltic Sea, Elbe, Weser, Ems, Rhine/Waal, Meuse, Scheldt, Spey, Don, Dee, Tay, Forth, Tyne, Tees, Humber, Thames

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13
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North Sea neighbours

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Norwegian Sea to the north
English Channel to the south
In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively.

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14
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Which Sea lies in the very north-eastern part of the Atlantic?

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Norwegian Sea

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