Answer :

The factor affecting the temperature of ocean water among the given options is depth of the ocean.

The temperature of ocean water varies with the depth. Ocean is divided into the three layers depending on the depth. In the ocean, solar energy reflects in upper surface and rapidly gets absorbed with the depth. Upper layer has depth of around 500 m and temperature 20°C - 25°C.

Second layer is thermocline layer with relatively low temperature of water. It indicates that, the deeper you go into the ocean, less sunlight is there. Therefore, deeper oceans are colder.

Deep ocean water is around 90% of the volume of oceans. It has uniform temperature of around 0-3°C.

Temperature and depth are related in such a way that the temperature decreases when the depth increase.

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