Pacific Ocean Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is the surface area of the Pacific Ocean?
165,250,000 square kilometers
2. What is the water volume of the Pacific Ocean?
710,000,000 cubic kilometers
3. What is the average depth of the Pacific Ocean?
4,280 meters
4. Who was the first Europan explorer to have seen or reached the Pacific Ocean from the New World?
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
5. How many islands are in the Pacific Ocean?
About 25,000
6. Which of the following depressions has the deepest natural point in the world with a maximum depth of 10.91 km?
Mariana Trench
7. How much is the Pacific Ocean currently shrinking per year?
2.5 centimeters
8. When was the Pacific Ocean born?
750 million years ago
9. Who named the Pacific Ocean's waters "Mar Pacifico" because of its apparent stillness?
Ferdinand Magellan
10. Which of the following fish species is not native to the Pacific Ocean?
Black brotula (Stygnobrotula latebricola)