How many different coloured seas are there in the world??

Question

How many different coloured seas are there in the world??

Answer 1

Red, Black and Yellow as far as names are concerned. I'm sure their are many different names for describing the seas in  particular locations, from inky black to azure blue.

Where's the White sea? OK, got it! It's the Baltic.

Answer 2

I can only think of 3. red, yellow and black....

Answer 3

Four - White, Black, Red & Yellow.

Russia lies between 'Black'('Tongue of Arabat') and 'White' (Kanin's nose) Seas.

RedSea is wedged between Asia (Arabia) & Africa (Egypt & Sudan).

Yellow Sea is in the North east of China, separating it from her Heilonjiang province and Korean Peninsula.

Answer 4

Everyone seems to have forgotten the White Sea.

Answer 5

Hi Mr KAN!

We see the water  great masses, seas, lakes, rivers, with colors: blue,  green, gray,

sometimes brownish. But if one picks up a pot of that water the aspect is not colored.  

So the color is an optical phenomenon that is observed only when a large volume of water

is considered and it depends on several things:

-The water reflects the sky, so its color depends upon the sky colour at that time, and if

it has white or grayish clouds.

-At other hand  the water colour depends also from the material that is found  mostly into

the sea  water.

There are life there…animal and vegetal, a lot,included the  phytoplankton, microscopic

plants that either float or are suspended there.  And of course there are  dissolved and

suspended also inorganic and organic matter coming from the sea floor and from rocks.  

Color is the result of  optical interactions from the incident  solar light and the

billions of microscopic particles present.

When the light of the sun reaches the sea surface different phenomena happen, part is

reflected, part is absorbed and some is scattered. These phenomena happens with the water

itself, the dissolved organic and inorganic matter and the suspended particles.

The colour of sea water depends upon  the distribution of these facts. It is blue for clear

ocean water and shifts to darker for less transparent or more turbid waters, and depends

also from the depth and transparency of the considered layer of water. And that colour can

be seen from space! That is why our planet Earth is called the "blue planet". Isn´t that

wonderful?

And thanks for asking NEWTON!

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