Oceanography facts for kids
Oceanography (also called oceanology or marine science) is the study of the ocean, its properties and its characteristics. This can include, and is not limited to, studying the marine life, the geography of the ocean floor, and the water itself. The branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans. It is mainly studied by boats using drills and moon pools to study the rock floor.
Sub-Categories
The study of oceanography may be divide branches:
- Marine biology or biological oceanography
- Chemical oceanography or marine chemistry
- Marine geology or geological oceanography
- Physical oceanography
- Marine engineering
Images for kids
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Thermohaline circulation
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Map of the Gulf Stream by Benjamin Franklin, 1769–1770. Courtesy of the NOAA Photo Library.
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1799 map of the currents in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, by James Rennell
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HMS Challenger undertook the first global marine research expedition in 1872.
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Ocean currents (1911)
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Writer and geographer John Francon Williams FRGS commemorative plaque, Clackmannan Cemetery 2019
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Oceanographic frontal systems on the Southern Hemisphere
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The Applied Marine Physics Building at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key, September 2007
See also
In Spanish: Oceanografía para niños
