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3. Describe the location, total area, temperature and marine life of Indian and Pacific Ocean.



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Pacific Ocean is known as the biggest ocean and has a total area of 165,250,000 km2

It’s geographical location runs through the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean . It also covers the continents of Asia, Australia and America.

It has a varying temperature with a high temperature of about 37 degrees in deep areas and could be as low as 10 degree and 20 degree in other parts

The organisms which survive here must be tolerant to salt and they include halophytic plants and salt water fishes such as whale, mackerel etc

Indian Ocean has a total area of 70,560,000 km².

It covers the continent of Africa, Australia and Asia.

It has a varying temperature which is usually between 22degree Celsius to 28degree Celsius.

It is also home to halophytic plants and similar animals found in the Pacific Ocean such as Shark, Dolphins etc.

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