27 results for “ocean”
Planet Earth
The Oceans
ocean in motion The ocean never rests. Winds drag the surface into great circulating currents, the Gulf
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Planets & the Solar System
Saturn
ocean into space. When Galileo turned his telescope on Saturn in 1610 he was baffled. The planet
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Animals
Sharks
oceanic sharks have fallen by about 70 percent in fifty years. Why it matters Sharks sit at the top of ocean
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Animals
Animal Migration
oceans, humpback whales swim from the krill-rich waters of the poles to tropical lagoons to give
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Planets & the Solar System
Jupiter
oceans of liquid water. If the planets were gathered in one place, Jupiter would be impossible
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Chemistry
Acids and Bases
oceans. Bite into a lemon and your face scrunches up. Rub soapy water between your fingers
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Animals
Whales and Dolphins
oceans. Here is what we know about the minds of the deep. Fifty million years ago a wolf
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Planet Earth
Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
ocean floor proved him right, and geology gained its unifying theory. A cracked shell Earth's outer
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Space & the Universe
Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars
oceans. For most of human history, the only planets anyone knew were the handful that wander
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Chemistry
Water: The Strangest Ordinary Substance
oceans and flows from the tap. Yet chemists consider it one of the strangest. A molecule
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Planet Earth
Weather and Climate
oceans move that heat around. Everything else, from a summer shower to a hurricane, is detail
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
Ocean, where plates are sinking into the mantle all around the rim: Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia
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Plants & Fungi
Seeds
oceans. Most of what people eat is seeds. Open a bean and inside you will find
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Life & Biology
The Origin of Life
ocean. Vents supply a steady flow of chemical energy, the minerals in their walls catalyse reactions
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Planet Earth
The Atmosphere
oceans learned to split water using sunlight and released oxygen as waste. Around 2.4 billion years
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Planets & the Solar System
The Moon
oceans and pulled at human imagination for as long as there have been humans. It is also
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Animals
Birds
oceans without landing. Birds are everywhere people are, and almost everywhere they are not: on Antarctic
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Planet Earth
Inside the Earth
oceans it is only five to ten kilometres thick, made of dense dark basalt that erupted
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Life & Biology
Bacteria and Viruses
ocean produce a large share of the oxygen you breathe, and their ancestors produced all of it in the first
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Planets & the Solar System
Mars
ocean, under a thicker, warmer atmosphere. What went wrong was size. A small planet cools fast
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Planets & the Solar System
Mercury and Venus
oceans once. As the young Sun brightened they boiled away, the water vapour trapped more heat
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Life & Biology
Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions
oceans and heated the planet. Three others, at the ends of the Ordovician, Devonian and Triassic
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Matter, Energy & Physics
Gravity
oceans in their basins, and sets the limit on how tall a mountain or how big an animal
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
oceans. Why it matters Nearly every form of energy on Earth is sunlight in disguise. Plants
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Plants & Fungi
Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light
ocean alga. Building sugar The light reactions produce energy-carrying molecules. The second stage uses them
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Planets & the Solar System
Comets, Asteroids and Pluto
oceans and the chemistry that led to life. The Kuiper belt and beyond Past Neptune lies
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Planet Earth
Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
ocean floor and of Hawaii. If it cooled slowly underground over thousands of years, the crystals
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