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The Sargasso Sea ( / sɑːrˈɡæsoʊ /) is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. [ 1] Unlike all other regions called seas, it has no land boundaries. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It is distinguished from other parts of the Atlantic Ocean by its characteristic brown Sargassum seaweed and often calm blue water. [ 1] The ...
Tasman Sea – 2.3 million km 2 (0.89 million sq mi) Bay of Bengal – 2.172 million km 2 (0.839 million sq mi) Bering Sea – 2 million km 2 (0.77 million sq mi) Sea of Okhotsk – 1.583 million km 2 (0.611 million sq mi) Gulf of Mexico – 1.550 million km 2 (0.598 million sq mi)
Overview. [edit] Seagrasses are a paraphyletic group of marine angiosperms which evolved in parallel three to four times from land plants back to the sea. The following characteristics can be used to define a seagrass species: It lives in an estuarine or in the marine environment, and nowhere else.
A sea is a large body of salty water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the World Ocean, the wider body of seawater . Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea ), or certain large, nearly landlocked bodies of water.
Hippophae is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae. The name sea buckthorn may be hyphenated [ 1] to avoid confusion with the unrelated true buckthorns ( Rhamnus, family Rhamnaceae ). It is also referred to as sandthorn, sallowthorn, [ 2] or seaberry. [ 3] It produces orange-yellow berries, which have been ...
Description and biology. Sea buckthorn leaves, thorns, and berries. Hippophae rhamnoides is a hardy, deciduous shrub that can grow between 2 and 4 m high (between 7 and 13 ft). [ 3] It has a rough, brown or black bark and a thick, grayish-green crown. [ 3] The leaves are alternate, narrow and lanceolate, with silvery-green upper faces. [ 4]
Drift seeds (also sea beans) and drift fruits are seeds and fruits adapted for long-distance dispersal by water. Most are produced by tropical trees, and they can be found on distant beaches after drifting thousands of miles through ocean currents. This method of propagation has helped many species of plant such as the coconut colonize and ...
Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus) is a herring in the family Clupeidae. It is one of the most abundant fish species in the world. Atlantic herrings can be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, congregating in large schools. They can grow up to 45 centimetres (18 in) in length and weigh up to 1.1 kilograms (2.4 lb).