Ocean A visual encyclopedia
Book - 2025
This book "for children aged 9-12 is full of ... pictures that bring the ocean to life and show its most amazing features. Each concept is broken down clearly, with colourful diagrams describing scientific processes, 'wow' facts, and graphics to engage and educate curious kids. ... Take a dip in all the world's waters to experience their incredible diversity. Make a splash in the icy Arctic waters before warming up in the tropical Indian Ocean. Experience the super size of mighty whales compared to swarms of tiny krill. Cast your eyesto the skies to see circling sea birds before diving down to meet mysterious creatures of the deep"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- JNF037070
JNF048040
JNF003150
Encyclopedias - Published
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New York, NY :
DK Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
2025.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Second edition. This American edition. New edition, fully revised and updated
- Item Description
- Published in 2015 in Great Britain under the title: Ocean: a children's encyclopedia.
Includes index. - Physical Description
- 256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
- Audience
- 9-12 years.
- ISBN
- 9780593969502
9780593969496
- Atlas Of The Oceans
- Oceans of the world
- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Southern Ocean
- 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
- The Open Ocean
- Depth zones
- Sunlit zone
- Zooplankton
- Drifting jellies
- The food chain
- Hungry shoals
- Oceanic hunters
- Bait ball
- Sharks
- Filter-feeding giants
- Baleen whales
- Bubble-net feeding
- Toothed whales and dolphins
- Ocean birds
- Twilight zone
- Midnight zone
- Ocean floor life
- Life on black smokers
- Shallow Seas
- Fertile waters
- The seabed
- Seaweeds
- Kelp forests
- Sea otter
- Seafloor fish
- Sea snails and clams
- Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish
- Hatching octopus
- Shrimp, 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
- 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 forests
- Scarlet ibis
- Seagrass beds
- Sea snakes and crocodiles
- 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
- Oceans And Us
- Seafaters and explorers
- Ocean science
- Scuba diving
- Deep-sea exploration
- Historic shipwrecks
- Minerals from the oceans
- Energy from the oceans
- Fishing
- Stilt fishing
- Ocean trade
- Climate crisis
- Harming the oceans
- Oceans in danger
- Marine conservation
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgments