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 The ocean holds the largest earth biomes, it covers 70% of the planets surface. The temperature of the ocean water varies depending on its location. Water near the polar regions is colder than the water near the equator. Many animals can only survive at certain temperatures. No matter how warm the water may be at the surface, about 1,000 feet below to (300cm) the temperature falls rapidly with increasing depth. The polar seas can be as cold as -2 degrees Celsius, but the Persian Gulf can be as wam as 36 degrees Celsius, The Persian Gulf is (low latitude and the polar seas are high latitude). But the average temperature of the ocean surface waters is about 17 degrees in Celsius. The precipitation is 480 cm a year.

Location The open ocean lies off of the continental shelf from the tropics to the icy cold polar regions. There are many reigons of the open ocean from the surface to the unexplored depths. One of these layers is the epipelagic zone which ranges from the surface down 200 meters. Next is the mesopleagic zone which lies under neath the epipelagic zone and goes down 1,000 meters. Next up is the bathypelagic zone is from 1,000 meters to 4,000 meters. Then we have the abyssalpelagic zone which is up to 6,000 meters. Up next is the hadalpelagic zone which happens to be deeper than 6,000 meters and is mostly found in deep trenches.

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