Why is the sea salty? : and other questions about the cceans
2014
Book
What kinds of animals live in the sea? What causes tides and waves? And exactly how deep is the ocean, anyway? From the water cycle and ocean zones to fun facts about how some lost rubber duckies ended up helping ocean scientists, this Good Question! book teaches kids about the life aquatic.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781454906766
Description: 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Contents:
- How much of Earth is covered with water?
- What is an ocean?
- How does water get to the ocean?
- Why is the sea salty?
- How deep is the ocean?
- What are the ocean zones?
- What lives in the ocean?
- Can anything live at the bottom of the sea?
- What's the biggest animal in the ocean?
- What other large animals are out there?
- What's "the rainforest of the sea"?
- How did rubber duckies help ocean scientists?
- Is there a plastic island in the ocean?
- Does the ocean predict the weather?
- What are the world's largest storms?
- How does the Moon move the oceans?
- What causes waves?
- Will the ocean always stay the same?
- Does it matter if the ocean rises?
- How much do we know about the ocean?
- Compare the oceans.
Control Number: 1146883
Publisher: New York : Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2014.Series: Good question!
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