Oceans

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=Atlantic Ocean=

Life
In all oceans, food webs start with little animals like plankton, that are mostly eaten by shrimp. These shrimp are eaten by small fish, the small fish eaten by larger fish. And then sharks.



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Size
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean on earth. The Atlantic covers an area of approximately 41,105,000 square miles (106,460,000 square kilometers).



Land Forms
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Shipwrecks
Over time, many shipwrecks occurred in the Atlantic Ocean. Many are famous, like the RMS Titanic that went down on April 15, 1912. Some of them are some that you may have never heard of, like the SS City of Everett, sinking on October 11, 1923. Many shipwrecks in the Atlantic were in the Mediterranean Ocean. Even with our technology and work, ships go down. Many boats go down by low tide, icebergs, war, and maybe even little careless mistakes that add up.



**Mythology** To get started, even the name of the Atlantic is from mythology. The Atlantic was named after Atlas from Greek mythology. The Atlantic Ocean is ‘The Sea of Atlas’. But there is also a myth that we all know. Atlantis, also known as ‘The Lost Empire’. And for those of you that do not know what Atlantis is, I’ll tell you. Atlantis was supposedly a city that sank into the Atlantic. Many people believe it is real and are looking for it. Leonardo da Vinci is an Italian person that has accomplished many things. One day his friend had given him a journal finding it on his trip to the South Atlantic. He did not know what the journal said because it was in a foreign language, much less read it. So Leonardo deciphered it over a two years time revealing that it was about a lost city called Atlantis. The journal was ‘The Shepherds Journal’.



**Pacific Ocean**

Life
In all oceans, food webs start with little animals like plankton, that are mostly eaten by shrimp. These shrimp are eaten by small fish, the small fish eaten by larger fish. And then sharks.

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Size
The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean on earth! The area of the Pacific ocean is about 63,780,000 square miles ( 165,200,000 square kilometers).



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Mythology
‘Pacific’ is an English word with no mythology tied to it. That has me move on about the fact that the Pacific has no mythology tied to it. There may be some old myths about it, but none that I could find. =Indian Ocean=

Life
In all oceans, food webs start with little animals like plankton, that are mostly eaten by shrimp. These shrimp are eaten by small fish, the small fish eaten by larger fish. And then sharks.



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Size
The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean on earth. The area of the Indian Ocean is about 28,400,000 square miles ( 13,002 square kilometers).



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Shipwrecks
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Mythology
The Indian Ocean, like the Pacific, has no mythology tied to it. Unlike the Pacific, it has mythology about the ocean itself. And since we talked about Atlantis for Atlantic Ocean mythology, let’s talk about its counterpart in the Indian Ocean, Pankhaia Island. In Greek mythology, Pankhaia is an island, far off the coast of Arabia. A lost Greek tribe was apparently lost, and then led there by Zeus, the most powerful god in Greek myths. On the island, there is a huge temple dedicated to Zeus. Many myths sprung from this island, Pankhaia. =Arctic Ocean=

Life
In all oceans, food webs start with little animals like plankton, that are mostly eaten by shrimp. These shrimp are eaten by small fish, the small fish eaten by larger fish. And then sharks.

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Size
The Arctic Ocean is the fourth largest ocean on Earth. The area of the Arctic Ocean is approximately 5,400,000 square miles ( 13,990.000 square kilometers).



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Shipwrecks
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Mythology
 The word ‘Arctic’ means cold, so it’s not mythology that named it I can assure you. Also, If you search for myths about the Arctic Ocean itself, all you will get is facts about global warming. There are most likely many old myths on it, but I am sorry to tell you that I can’t find any.  **Protecting Oceans**

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Networks
A network is a balanced relationship that keeps life together and connected to every other living thing. There are two different networks. There are trophic networks and symbiotic networks.

**Nested Systems** A Nested System is a system that shows how smaller systems are part and made of larger systems, but not connected. The systems that are closer have more impact to affect each other than systems that are farther away.

For example, cells make up a garden eel, a garden eel is part of a group of garden eels. The group of garden eels is part of that area. That area is part of the ocean. And the oceans are part of Earth.



Trophic Network: A food web Symbiotic Network: Doing something and having something done at the same time for example there is a type of bird that eats the bits of food from a crocodiles teeth. The bird gets food, and the crocodile gets clean teeth.

**Cycles** A cycle is an invisible order of events that creates the things nature needs to stay alive. Because Earth is on a tilt, its orbit creates changes in the temperature because of the distance from the sun (more energy hits the Earth in summer, less in winter). For example, it the winter everything freezes and the animals go somewhere else to eat, but in the spring, when the plants grow, they come back.

An example of a cycle in the ocean an is the currents. Currents all "start" somewhere, and then the go around the globe. Some change temperature in the process, but when they get back where they "started", they are the same, and then the currents go around the world again, and again, and again.



Flows
A Flow is when life energy goes through an ecosystem and may or may not come back. For example, whales go through different oceans for food and warm water for breeding.



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Dynamic Balance
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