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1.06 Origins of the Ocean
The Continental drift was the process in which the Earth’s land surfaces ( at the time known as the pangea) started slowly breaking apart and drifting away. This has continued until the continents were in the places we know them to be today. This drift has caused the formation of separate oceans instead of one huge one. This drift still continues today.

Volcanoes affected the origins of the sea by pouring huge amounts of steam into the atmosphere. This would result in the process of condensation. The volcanoes would pour steam and the Earth would cool down, which lead to condensation. The process caused water to fill up the hollows on Planet Earth, which formed it’s seas.

As a particle going through the hydrolic cycle, first I am evaporated from a body of water. Then I mix into the atmosphere. When the air cools down, I and other water droplets conform a cloud. Then I am take off from the cloud and fall back into the atmosphere. I later fall on land, or another body of water and the cycle begins again.

The Contenintal drift was the process in which the Earth’s land surfaces ( at the time known as the pangea) started slowly breaking apart and drifting away. This has continued until the continents were in the places we know them to be today. This drift has caused the formation of seperate oceans instead of one huge one. This drift still continues today.

Volcanos affected the origins of the sea by pouring huge amounts of steam into the atmosphere. This would result in the process of condensation. The volcanos would pour steam and the Earth would cool down, which lead to condensation. The process caused water to fill up the hollows on Planet Earth, which formed it’s seas.

As a particle going through the hydrolic cycle, first I am evaporated from a body of water. Then I mix into the atmosphere. When the air cools down, I and other water droplets comform a cloud. Then I am sheded from the cloud and fall back into the atmosphere.

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