SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The world’s largest body of water is ____
A
Pacific Ocean
B
Atlantic Ocean
C
Gulf of Mexico
D
Mississippi River
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins . Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world’s ocean basins. All of the world’s continents could fit into the Pacific basin.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pacific Ocean is a body of salt water extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North America and South America on the east.

Detailed explanation-3: -Here is our first view of the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest ocean, encompassing around one-third of the Earth’s surface, approximately 64 million square miles-it is significantly larger than Earth’s entire landmass, and in the 1800s much of it was uncharted.

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