The Indian Ocean, Geography and Climate

The Indian Ocean, Geography and Climate

Oct 22 Science Standard

DEFINE 

The Indian Ocean, body of salt water covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the world. It is the smallest, geologically youngest, and physically most complex of the world's three major oceans(Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian). It stretches for more than 6,200 miles(10,000 km) between the southern tips of Africa and Australia and without its marginal seas, has an area of about 27,243,000 square miles.

TRENCHES

The Indian Ocean has the fewest trenches of any of the world's oceans. The narrow volcanic, and seismically active Java Trench is the  world's second longest, stretching more than 2,800 miles from southwest of Java and continuing northward as the Sunda Trench past Sumatra, with an extension along the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

CLIMATE

The Indian Ocean can be subdivided into four general latitudinal climatic zones based on atmospheric circulation: monsoon, trade winds, subtropical and temperate, subantarctic and Antarctic.The region is subject to destructive tropical cyclones that form over the open ocean and head for shore in a generally westward direction. Those storms typically occur just before and after the southwest monsoon rains, with west-facing coasts generally being the most severely affected

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