The average depth of the ocean is about 3,700m and the deepest point is the Challenger Deep 11,000m down at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. 71% of our planet is covered in water which makes up 97% of the living space on earth. This is the largest space in our universe known to be inhabited by living things. Less than 10% of this space has been explored by humans because it is so hard to study, but scientists are discovering amazing new creatures all the time. Most people know about the incredible things you can see in places like the Great Barrier Reef, but they forget about what we have closer to home. No-one in the UK lives more than 70 kilometres from the sea, we are an island surrounded by temperate waters – that means that our seas are cool in temperature and as a result support a huge variety of amazing marine creatures! You could put Mount Everest at the bottom of the Challenger Deep and there would still be over a mile of water above it before you reached the surface! Challenger Deep Mount Everest 11,035 metres below sea level Mariana Trench Planet earth / Planet ocean
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The average depth of the ocean is about 3,700m and the deepest point is the Challenger Deep 11,000m down at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
71% of our planet is covered in water which makes up 97% of the
living space on earth. This is the largest space in our universe known to be
inhabited by living things.
Less than 10% of this space has been explored by humans because it is
so hard to study, but scientists are discovering amazing new
creatures all the time. Most people know about the
incredible things you can see in places like the
Great Barrier Reef, but they forget about what we have
closer to home.
No-one in the UK lives more than 70 kilometres
from the sea, we are an island surrounded by
temperate waters – that means that our seas
are cool in temperature and as a result support a huge variety of amazing
marine creatures!
You could put Mount Everest at the bottom of the Challenger Deep and there would still be over a mile of water above it before you reached the surface!
Challenger Deep
Mount Everest
11,035 metres below sea level
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Planet earth / Planet ocean
YOU
An ocean is part of the large expanse of salty water that makes up the World Ocean.
A sea is an area of the World Ocean that is partly or completely enclosed by land. NORTH
ATLANTICOCEAN
SOUTH ATLANTICOCEAN
INDIANOCEAN
SOUTHERNOCEAN
SOUTHERNOCEAN
ARCTICOCEAN
ARCTICOCEAN
SOUTH PACIFICOCEAN
EQUATOR
TROPIC OF CANCER
TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
NORTHPACIFICOCEAN NORTH
PACIFICOCEAN
Mediterranean Sea
Caribbean Sea
Celtic Sea
North Sea
N O R T H E R N H E M I S P H E R E
S O U T H E R N H E M I S P H E R E
Our oceans breathe - Carbon dioxide in - oxygen out! Oceans help to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) trapping about ¼ of the CO2 that humans put into the air.
Half of the world’s oxygen is produced by plankton! Just like trees and other plants, phytoplankton (tiny plant-like organisms) in the ocean release oxygen.
The average temperature of the ocean is
between 2 and 3
degrees Celsius.
The polar seas can be as cold as -2 degrees Celsius while the Persian Gulf can be as warm as 36 degrees Celsius.