What is the difference between the ocean and the sea? First off, the ocean and the sea are NOT the same thing. The ocean is bigger and makes up most of the world, but the sea is a smaller body of water. I mean, the sea is still pretty big, but the ocean is (way) bigger. The sea is mostly surrounded by land, but the ocean isn't. The sea and the ocean can touch, but the sea is the part that is mostly surrounded by land. One pretty obvious way to tell the difference is by the name; the Pacific ocean, Mediterranean sea, Atlantic Ocean, Black sea. If you look on a world map, the smaller bodies of water are the ones that are called seas. Look on the map that is on this post and find the oceans and the seas. You will find that the seas are smaller and are more covered by land than the ocean.
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lily
10/11/2019 11:37:27 am
I like how you used the map to show what you were talking about. The ocean is a lot bigger then the seas even though the seas seem huge!
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Mary
10/12/2019 02:19:43 pm
super true! i feel about the same way!
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Mrs. Randall
10/15/2019 09:14:30 pm
You did a great job of using a clear example of their differences by explaining the ways seas are bound by land.
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Mary
10/28/2019 07:26:34 pm
I feel the same when I researched the difference between a sea and ocean. it kinda made no sense. but now that I have been thinking about it more and more and reading more blogs I really understand that a sea is just (most of the time) a body of water surrounded by land. but an ocean surrounds the land. and sense land is surrounding a sea it tends to be smaller, just because its surrounded by land and there is less land.
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