Given what you know about surface productivity, where do you think that sunlight penetrates deepest into the ocean?

a) Coastal waters on the west coast of North America
b) Lagoons in the South Pacific
c) In the open ocean
d) Along the equator
e) Surrounding Antarctica


C

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