Becky Snyder, age 13, of Butte, Mont., for her question:

WHERE IS THE YELLOW SEA?

An arm of the Pacific ocean that extends inland for about 400 miles between the east coast of China and Korea is called the Yellow Sea. The waters along the banks are a yellow, muddy color, and the Chinese have named this part of the ocean the Hwang Hai, which means Yellow Sea.

The Hwang Hai gets its color from deposits of yellow earth, called hwang tu, brought to the sea by the Hwang and Yangtze rivers.

The sea is about 300 feet deep at its deepest part. It covers 480,000 square miles.

Tsingtao lies on the Chinese coast of the Yellow Sea, on the southern shore of the Shantung Peninsula. Port Arthur and Dairen are located at the southern end of China's Liaotung Peninsula.

The Korea Strait connects the Yellow Sea with the Sea of Japan. At the north, the Yellow Sea forms Laichow Bayhk, the Gulf of Chihli, the Gulf of Liaotung and Korea Bay.