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Ocean water plays an indispensable role in supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million cubic miles of water.
Ocean water plays an indispensable role in supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million cubic miles of water.
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2010-12-06
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Ocean water plays an indispensable role in supporting life. The great ocean basins hold about 300 million cubic miles of water. From this vast amount; about 80,000 cubic miles of water are sucking into the atmosphere each year by evaporation and returned by precipitation and drainage to the ocean. More than 24,000 cubic miles of rain descend annually upon the continents. This vast amount is required to replenish the lakes and streams, springs and water tables on which all flora and fauna are dependent. Thus, the hydrosphere permits organism existence.
The hydrosphere has strange characteristics because water has properties unlike those of any other liquid. One anomaly is that water upon freezing expands by about 9 percent, whereas most liquids contract on cooling. For this reason, ice floats on water bodies instead of sinking to the bottom. If the ice sank, the hydrosphere would soon be frozen solidly, except for a thin layer of surface melt water during the summer season. Thus, all aquatic life would be destroyed and the interchange of warm and cold currents, which moderates climate, would be notably absent.
Another outstanding characteristic of water is that it has a heat capacity which is the highest of all liquids and solids except ammonia. This characteristic enables the oceans to absorb ard store vast quantities of heat, thereby often preventing climatic extremes. In addition, water dissolves more substances than any other liquid. It is this characteristic which helps make oceans a great storehouse for minerals which have been washed down from the continents. In several areas of the world these minerals are being commercially exploited. Solar evaporation of salt is widely practiced, potash is extracted from the Dead Sea, and Magnesium is produced from seawater along the American Gulf Coast.
Fish can survive in the oceans because ______.
选项
A、there are currents in the ocean
B、ice floats
C、evaporation and condensation create a water cycle
D、water absorbs heat
答案
C
解析
第1段讲到大洋水的一部分蒸发到大气当中,又通过降水回到海洋,还有一部分降到大陆上,来补充生物赖以生存的河流、湖泊,因此Hydrosphere permits organic existence,可以看出生物能够生存是由于水蒸发和凝结作用形成的水循环。
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