Where would all the ocean water go?
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Into the abyss of course........:)\n\n*runs to the blog to go copy her answer from there*\n\nLovely picture by the way, but it has scared me from ever boarding the Mayflower. Thank goodness I'll never have to. I would have looked horrendous in the pilgrim shoes anyway. But enough rambling......let me get to the question.\n\nThe ships would all fall into the abyss. What if....the fall was neverending? What if they just kept falling with no where to land? would the water keep running too? would it lead to another land? Is this where "neverland" is? Or do we fall and fall into a nothingness? Or will we fall and land on the River Styx? \n\nWe know the ocean water has to return other wise the earth would be drained and before long draught would be the next issue after global warming. So my thoughts are crazy but that the water falls and falls and falls until it hits a warp that sucks it back up and into the earth yet again similar to the way a fountain works. A never ending cycle. But if so........what could possibly be at the bottom of the abyss??? One shall never know. *sigh*
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evaporation would need to something for this to happen then where would the vapor go the chances of oceans drying up in our life times of the human race is nill if it happened the cause would have finished us long before have you any more stupid questions
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You should take a look here to see the formation of the ocean basins: http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/change.html\nand then the next page, to see one theory on where the water comees from:\nhttp://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/cycle.html\n\nPerhaps a better answer is here:\nhttp://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct99/941236464.Es.r.html\n\nFurther discussion on the origins of all the water is given here:\nhttp://www.oceansonline.com/ocean_form.htm\nand under the "Origin of the oceans" title here:\nhttp://www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/oceans.htm
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I read in new scientist that there there is a certain current in the Atlantic that transports hotter ocean water from the south to the north.\n\nWhat happens here is the arctic ice will cool the temperature of the water down and it will thus flow south again.\n\nWith global warming there will be a constant flow of hot water to the north thus raising the water level there. So all places on the northern hemisphere would get affected first. \n\nI'm not too sure I got all the facts right but it has something to do with a current though.
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the Tasman sea. Or the Sea of Japan. Or the south China sea. your pick.
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water, drinkable water. territorial access to ports and water. \n\none day certain water may get so contiminated the ecosystem will not be able to purify the water. then ground water will become very valuable.
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As water flows in rivers, it picks up small amounts of mineral salts from the rocks and soil of the river beds. This very-slightly salty water flows into the oceans and seas. The water in the oceans only leaves by evaporating (and the freezing of polar ice), but the salt remains dissolved in the ocean - it does not evaporate. So the remaining water gets saltier and saltier as time passes.
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There isn't going to be a lack of water worldwide....just in poor countries.  Richer countries will be purifying ocean water to drink.  \n\nAnd about Austrailia....I think the problem is getting water to people, not having enough of it.
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The big unknown in your question is what the weather would be like.\n\nKeep in mind that the amount of rainfall could still be the same on a worldwide basis.  Almost all of the water evaporated from the ocean falls as rain within about 100 miles of the coast.  \n\nYou know that in South America, rain forests are located far inland, even in the center of the contient.  So, it doesn't take evaporation from the ocean to sustain an extremely wet climate.\n\nPresumably, the ocean basins would be covered by forests.  They put a tremendous amount of water into the air through transpiration.  What would the climate be like at such a low elevation?  This would dramatically change the albedo of the earth; much more sunlight would be absorbed!  Overall, the world would be much hotter.\n\nYou would still have large freswater lakes on the continents, and presumably at some places in the ocean basins.\n\nHeck, I have a PhD in geology and I can't answer this question.  What would the climate be like?  Would the lower albedo cause a runaway greenhouse effect, or would the higher average temperature evaporate more water making more clouds to completely offset the increased albedo?\n\nTell your professor there isn't enough information about what the climate would be like.
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5 oceans : from the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.
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Coz the water comes from the Pacific and goes into the Atlantic
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Most goes strait back to the Pacific Ocean.  The rest goes east to the Puget Sound and north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and then to the Pacific after that.
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my guess is the oceans, and other bodies of water, i.e. lakes, rivers, and streams!
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The oceans don't belong to any one country.  Different countries make claims on the ocean closest to their shoreline, sometimes all the way out to 200 miles, but I don't think anyone has claimed anything further.  In the case of India and Sri Lanka, the channel between them would split basically in the middle, and they'd split the surrounding waters as well.  There are international treaties in place to determine how this is done.
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atlantic ocean\n\n:> peace\n.
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pacific ocean and atlantic ocean\n\n:> peace\n.
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The Earth's oceans are all connected to one another. Until the year 2000, there were four recognized oceans: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic. In the Spring of 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization delimited a new ocean, the Southern Ocean (it surrounds Antarctica and extends to 60 degrees latitude). \nSee map with location in\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/