Congress commissioned 14 official copies of the Bill of Rightsâone for the federal government and one for each of the original 13 states, which President George Washington dispatched to the states to consider for ratification. Today, most of these original copies reside at the archives of their respective states.
ocean in Science Expand. The continuous body of salt water that covers 72 percent of the Earth's surface. The average salinity of ocean water is approximately three percent. The deepest known area of the ocean, at 11,034 m (36,192 ft) is the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. Any of the principal divisions of this body of water, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans.
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land. More broadly, the sea (with the definite article) is the interconnected system of Earth's salty, oceanic watersâconsidered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions.The sea moderates Earth's climate and has important roles in the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle.alinity in the open ocean is generally in a narrow band around 3.5% by mass, although this can vary in more landlocked waters, near the mouths of large rivers, or at great depths. About 85% of the solids in the open sea are sodium chloride.