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प्रश्न
Continental shelf provides good fishing ground.
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उत्तर
They are shallower, thus enables sunlight to penetrate through the water. This encourages abundant growth of grass, sea weeds and plankton. Hence these zones become the richest fishing grounds in the world, e.g. The Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Assertion(A): Submarine canyons are deep gorges on the ocean floor.
Reason(R): They are mainly restricted to continental shelf, slope and rise.
Mention the various relief features of ocean floor.
Distinguish between Spring tide and Neap tide.
What do you mean by ocean currents?
What is Hypsometric curve?
What do you mean by the ocean salinity?
Assertion (A): The ocean/seawater does not contains calcium in great quantities.
Reason (R): Many of the aquatic animals with shells use the dissolved calcium in the seawater to build their protective shells.
Give reason for the following.
Most of the Creek area get submerged.
Why is the salinity at the equator less even though it experiences high temperature?
“Though Caspian Sea is enclosed its salinity is just 14 to 17 parts per thousand. Why is it so?
