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Seas of the World Flashcards

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Bay separating Nunavut from Greenland

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Baffin Bay

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Sea off the south coast of Ireland, to the edge of the continental shelf

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Celtic Sea

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Strait connecting Baffin Bay to the Labrador Sea

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Davis Strait

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Bay between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia renowned for its high tidal range

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Bay of Fundy

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Sea between Australia and New Zealand

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Tasman Sea

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Sea bounded on the north by Pakistan and India, connected to the Persian Gulf by the Gulf of Oman and to the Red Sea by the Gulf of Aden

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Arabian Sea

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Seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia

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Red Sea

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Estuary between the U.S. states of New York and Connecticut

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Long Island Sound

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Also known as the Sea of Cortés

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Gulf of California

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Strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

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Strait of Hormuz

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Sea between Atlantic Canada and Greenland

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Labrador Sea

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Strait connecting Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean

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Nares Strait

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Pacific sea between Russia and Alaska; largest sea in the world

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Bering Sea

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Northern part of the East China Sea, located between China and Korea

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Yellow Sea

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Strait that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland

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Strait of Belle Isle

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World’s shallowest sea; linked by the narrow Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea

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Sea of Azov

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Sea between the Italian Riviera and the island of Corsica

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Ligurian Sea

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18
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Sea historically also known as the Burma Sea

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Andaman Sea

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Strait between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (the widest of the three outlets for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence into the Atlantic Ocean)

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Cabot Strait

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20
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Sea supplied by the Danube and Dnieper, among other rivers

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Black Sea

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Also known as the Golfe de Gascogne and the Golfo de Vizcaya, it lies off the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain

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Bay of Biscay

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Sea south of China, east of Vietnam, and west of the Philippines

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South China Sea

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Sea between southern Italy and the west coast of Greece

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Ionian Sea

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Sea known to the Ancient Romans as Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”)

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Mediterranean Sea

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Sea between the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia

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Black Sea

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Saltiest sea in the world

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Red Sea

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Estuary off the coast of Virginia and dividing the state of Maryland

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Chesapeake Bay

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Sea located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia

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Barents Sea

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Narrow strait connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara; also known as the Strait of Istanbul

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Bosporus

30
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Narrow strait connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean

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Strait of Gibraltar

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Southernmost part of Hudson Bay

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James Bay

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Inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece

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Gulf of Corinth

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Sea north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska

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Beaufort Sea

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Strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland

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Bass Strait

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Gulf at the outlet of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean

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Gulf of Saint Lawrence

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Large bay in northeastern Canada

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Hudson Bay

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Sea separating the islands of Ireland and Great Britain

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Irish Sea

38
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Body of water between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest

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Persian Gulf

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Sea off the northeast coast of Australia; includes the Great Barrier Reef

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Coral Sea

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Narrow strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas; known in antiquity as the Hellespont

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Dardanelles

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Gulf including the Bay of Fundy, Massachusetts Bay, and Cape Cod Bay

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Gulf of Maine

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Strait between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island

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Georgia Strait

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Southern Ocean sea bounded by Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula

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Weddell Sea

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Body of water called “la Manche,” or “the Sleeve” by the French

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English Channel

45
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Waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean

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Suez Canal

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Bay bounded on the west and northwest by India on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman Islands

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Bay of Bengal

47
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Channel between the African continent and Madagascar

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Mozambique Channel

48
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Sea between Japan, Korea, and Russia

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Sea of Japan (East Sea)

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Southernmost sea in the world, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica

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Ross Sea

50
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Gulf separating Sweden and Finland

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Gulf of Bothnia

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Sea located between Great Britain and Scandinavia

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North Sea

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Sea between Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula, bounded by Hokkaido to the south

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Sea of Okhotsk

53
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Gulf largely surrounded by the North American continent, bounded on the southeast by Cuba

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Gulf of Mexico

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Embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas

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Aegean Sea

55
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Region of the North Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre; distinguished by its characteristic brown seaweed

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Sargasso Sea

56
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Sea between China and Japan’s Kyushu and Ryukyu Islands

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East China Sea

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Sea bounded by Denmark to the west and Russia to the east

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Baltic Sea

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Sea between the islands of southeast Asia and Australia

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Timor Sea

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Sea off the western coast of Italy, bounded by Corsica and Sardinia to the west

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Tyrrhenian Sea

60
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Gulf connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea

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Gulf of Oman

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Sea separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula

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Adriatic Sea

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The easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, bordered by Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Gaza Strip in the east

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Levantine Sea

63
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Gulf connecting the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea

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Gulf of Aden

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Intricate network of coastal waterways of southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington; includes the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound

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Salish Sea

65
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Inland sea, entirely within the borders of Turkey, that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea

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Sea of Marmara

66
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Strait between India and Sri Lanka

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Palk Strait

67
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Sea off the northern coast of South America, bounded to the east by the Lesser Antilles

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Caribbean Sea

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