The annual health-care costs for people who are extremely obese are almost twice those of normal-weight people. Very sobering is the fact that severe obesity is increasing at a much faster rate than moderate obesity, quadrupling from 1986â2000.6.
As a sea is connected to the oceans, which are salt water, most seas are also salt water. This is not a distinguishing feature between a sea and a lake, however, as lakes are more commonly freshwater but can be salty depending on their source and their surroundings.
Contents: Ocean vs Sea. Area. Oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface, and contain 97 percent of the planet's water. The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean covering an area of 64,186,000 square miles and the Mediterranean Sea is the largest sea with an area of 1,144,800 square miles.