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Why is the year of the rabbit also called the year of the cat?

In the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the year of the rabbit. The second name - the year of the cat - came from the Vietnamese horoscope. The Chinese character for rabbit is pronounced the same as the word for "cat" in Vietnamese, which is why the cat has replaced the rabbit here.

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What is the continental shelf?

When you talk about the Atlantic Ocean, you only mean the top layer of water. But what is under water, at the bottom of the ocean? Let's imagine that we are traveling from New York east across the Atlantic Ocean. This is the picture of the bottom that will open up to us. For about 320 km, the bottom gradually lowers. It is usually flat, but sometimes has V-shaped valleys and canyons. This is the continental shelf, part of the North American continent. It so happened that it is too low to protrude above the sea.

At a depth of about 360 m, the shelf suddenly ends. It no longer descends smoothly, but breaks off. This is the edge of the continent, or the slope that goes all the way to the bottom of the ocean. Descending along this slope, we find ourselves at a depth of about 4 km. Now we are crossing the ocean at its deepest point. Here the bottom of the ocean is flat. It is called the deep sea plain. Such plains cover about a third of the ocean area and are one of the most flat places on Earth.

If we continue to move along the ocean, then soon we will reach the place of underwater elevations. Some of them look like hills. This is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Somewhere around the middle of the range, the hills become higher and steeper, and some rise like mountains to a height of about 1500 m from the bottom. Between the mountains there are deep-water valleys with a flat surface. Right in the middle of the ridge lies the largest underwater valley. It looks like a rift between two parts of the ridge.

If we continue to the east, we will again cross the deep-sea plain, which gently rises to the continental shelf off the coast of Portugal. This is the picture of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

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