Record details

• ISBN: 9781465436641
• ISBN: 1465436642
• ISBN: 9781465435941
• ISBN: 1465435948
• Physical Description: 256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
• Publisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2015.
• Copyright: �2015

Content descriptions

General Note:

Published 2015 in Great Britain under the title: Ocean: a children's encyclopedia.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Atlas of the oceans -- Oceans of the world -- Arctic ocean -- Atlantic ocean -- Indian ocean -- Pacific ocean -- Southern ocean -- 2. Blue planet -- Planet ocean -- How oceans formed -- New land -- Ocean floor -- Mid-ocean ridges -- The deepest depths -- Grinding plates -- Evolving oceans -- Tsunamis -- Hotspots -- Lava flow -- Continental shelves -- Changing sea levels -- Ocean water -- Light, heat, and sound -- Oceanic winds -- Oceanic storms -- Waves -- Plunging breaker -- Surface currents -- Sargasso Sea -- Upwelling zones -- Deepwater currents -- 3. The open ocean -- Depth zones -- Sunlit zone -- Zooplankton -- Drifting jellies -- The food chain -- Hungry schools -- Oceanic hunters -- Bait ball -- Sharks -- Filter-feeding giants -- Baleen whales -- Lunge-feeding whales -- Toothed whales and dolphins -- Ocean birds -- Twilight zone -- Dark zone -- Ocean floor life -- Life on black smokers -- 4. Shallow seas -- Fertile waters -- The seabed -- Seaweeds -- Kelp forests -- Sea otter -- Seafloor fish -- Sea snails and clams -- Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish -- Hatching octopus -- Prawns, lobsters, and crabs -- Starfish, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers -- Jellyfish and anemones -- Corals and coral reefs -- The Great Barrier Reef -- Reef fish -- Reef invertebrates -- Giant clam -- Atolls and lagoons -- 5. Coast and seashore -- Tides -- Wave power -- Cliffs and caves -- Twelve apostles -- Rocky shore life -- Tide pools -- Beaches, dunes, and spits -- Hidden riches -- Shorebirds -- Oystercatchers -- Seabird colonies -- Sea turtles -- Shore crabs -- Estuaries and mudflats -- Deltas -- Salt marshes -- Mangrove swamps -- Scarlet ibis -- Seagrass beds -- Sea snakes and crocodiles -- 6. Polar seas -- Polar extremes -- Sea ice -- Life under the ice -- Crabeater seals and penguins -- Sleek hunters -- Antarctic hunters -- Antarctic islands -- Glaciers and ice shelves -- Icebergs -- Blue icebergs -- Arctic seals -- Icy nurseries -- Hunters on the ice -- Humans on the ice -- 7. Oceans and us -- Voyages of discovery -- Ocean science -- Scuba diving -- Deep-sea submersibles -- Historic shipwrecks -- Minerals from the oceans -- Energy from the oceans -- Fishing -- Stilt fishing -- Ocean trade -- Oceans in danger -- Climate change -- Marine conservation -- Captive breeding -- Glossary.

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Ocean > Encyclopedias, Juvenile.
Marine animals > Encyclopedias, Juvenile.