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= = = = = = =**Welcome to The Ocean Shore!** = //Tanner A. and Gabriella D.//

Location
The ocean shore biome can be found in numerous places around the world. The ocean shore biome is commonly found in the North Sea and Barents Sea of western Europe. The Grand Banks and other shallow waters of northeastern North America, the Gulf of Mexico, and inshore waters of most of western North America are other areas where the ocean shore biome is found. In these areas, it is located just beyond the shore of the oceans or seas. The ocean shore biome borders the coast of many major oceans around the world.

Climate
Our biome can have 4 or less seasons, depending on where it is. Because this biome is located just outside every intertidal zone of __every__ ocean coast in the world, we chose to show two different locations' temperature and precipitation. In the ocean shore, or nearshore zone, by Hobart, Australia, the seasonal temperatures are: For winter, 21 degrees Celsius, for spring, 14 degrees, for summer, 13 degrees, and for fall 18 degrees. Its seasonal precipitation levels are 4.44 cm in winter, 5.08 cm in spring, 5.29 cm in summer, and 5.75 cm in winter. However, in the section of this biome outside of Nassau, Bahamas, temperature and precipitation are very different from Hobart. In winter at Nassau, the average temperature is 25 degrees Celsius the whole year.That doesn't mean it has only one season though, as it has 2-- a dry and a wet season. In the dry season, it receives about 63.1 cm, it receives 36.6 centimeters of precipitation, and in the wet season 133.5 cm. The location of the ocean shore biome is literally just outside everywhere there is a coast along the ocean. It is basically a strip outside the surf zone of every oceanic coast and island- just about as variable as it gets.

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