Why doesnt the ocean overflow?
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ANSWERS: 15
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Because there is not enough water in it!
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i think some day it will with global warming and such
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because it isn't full enough.
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Didn't you hear about Katrina? It does overflow from time to time.
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It does, sometimes people live below sea level and it will go over land and ruin their living areas. - things are in balance it is really amazing to think about.
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The constant evaporation of water due to the water cycle repeating incessantly causes the amount of water in the ocean to fluxuate, but not reach the point of overflowing. Therefore, the ocean does not overflow.
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Not enough fat people jump into it.
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It did once, after it rain on the earth for forty days & forty nights. Just check out Genesis Ch:7 V-4 & read on. You will find in V-19 were the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the hills..... Keep reading & you may find were the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. And in Ch:9 V-11 God said that He would never do it again to destroy the earth. So I believe do to He said that, may be the answer to your question.........M.C.S.
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Every now and then it does. Tsunami, remember?
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Mostly because of the Tides and ebb and flow............which is all navigated by the moon.
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Give it some time, would ya?
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It occasionally does. The Mediterranean did about (don't quote me on the times!) 25, 000 years ago. As did the black sea about (again dates I am not sure of) 10,000 years ago. Depends on sea levels which is dependent on position of continents and global temperatures etc.
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its got other things to do.
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It can't. There is a finite and constant amount of water on the planet.
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water that comes down is only at the rate it goes up in evaporation. it's a cycle.
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