Mrs. Arney’s Web Sites

 

Oceans

Science Core+

 

General Info on Oceans

BBC – Blue Planet homepage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/

The Blue Planet – Seas of Life

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/games.shtml

Rutger’s Marine COOL site

http://www.coolclassroom.org/home.html

Oceans for Life – Nat’l Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/seas/

 

 

 

 

 

Mapping Oceans

Ocean information – general 

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ocean_planet_ocean_science.html

 

 

Ocean information - general

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_geography.html

 

 

Ocean – general information

http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/index.html

 

About Oceans

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/

 

Oceans Alive !!

http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/alive.htm

 

The Atlantic Ocean

http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/oceans/AtlanticOceanWeb/frameset1.htm

 

The Atlantic Ocean

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_geography_Atlantic.html

 

The Pacific Ocean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean

 

The Pacific Ocean

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_geography_Pacific.html

 

The Indian Ocean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean

 

Indian Ocean Earthquake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

 

The Indian Ocean

http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/indian2.html

 

The Arctic Ocean

http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/arctic2.html

 

The Arctic Ocean

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/oceans/arctic.html

 

Antarctic Ocean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean

Antarctic Ocean

http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/a/fifthocean.htm

Antarctic Ocean

http://www.oceansatlas.org/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND05NzAmY3RuX2luZm9fdmlld19zaXplPWN0bl9pbmZvX3ZpZXdfZnVsbCY2PWVuJjMzPSomMzc9a29z

 

Seafloor Spreading

Seafloor spreading - general

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer/concepts/spreading.html

Volcanoes

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part8.html

Seafloor spreading - general

http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/platetectonics/4.php

Ring of fire

http://www.crystalinks.com/rof.html

Hydrothermal vents

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/level-2/geology/vents.html

Seafloor – continental slopes, etc.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0860098.html

Mid-Ocean Ridges

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/baseball.html

Mid-Ocean Ridges

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/volcano_types/spread.htm

Plate Tectonics

http://www.platetectonics.com/book/page_8.asp

Dive and Discover !!!

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/ridge/index.html

Ocean Trenches

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0860099.html

How Oceans were formed

http://www.mos.org/oceans/planet/features.html

 

Waves and Tides  (You have to visit the first two sites to do your assignment)

Virtual Tide Pool – ( to help you with your assignment)

http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/Visitor/TidePool/  

Making Waves Game (Computer Day activity)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/edge/  

Tides

http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/sandy/indexfr.htm

Waves

http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/sandy/indexfr.htm

Shorelines - general

http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/sandy/indexfr.htm

Tides – with a question at the end

http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/tides.shtml

Waves with a question at the end

http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/educate/waves.shtml

 

Tsunamis and Hurricanes

Hurricanes

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/severeweather/hurricanes.html  

NGS Hurricanes

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0308/hurricane/index.html

Tsunamis

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/ 

animation of Tsunamis

http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/index.html 

Tsunamis

http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/index.html

Tsunamis links

http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/toc.html 

Indian Ocean Earthquake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

 

Currents

 

 

 

El Nino and La Nina

El Nino and La Nina information

http://waves.marine.usf.edu/mwhome.htm

 

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/elnino/elnino.html#overview 

 

http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/index.html

 

 

 

 

 

Ice Bergs and Glaciers

BBC Blue Planet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/

 

Icebergs & Penguins – National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/18/g68/seaspenguin.html

 

What’s Happening to the Emperor Penquin?

National Geographic

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/18/g35/seaspenguin.html

Webquest - icebergs

http://express.howstuffworks.com/wq-iceberg.htm

Explore Glaciers

http://42explore.com/glaciers.htm

Webquest - Glaciers

http://web.syr.edu/~bwertl/glaciers.html

Antartica

http://www.midcoast.com.au/~ttc/Antarctica.html

 

Ocean Life

Plants and algae

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hOri=1&group=1

Kelp forests

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hab=5 

Deep sea life

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hab=9 

Open water life

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hab=8 

Reefs and piling life

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hab=6 

Sandy seafloor life

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hab=7 

Invertebrates

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hOri=1&group=2 

Marine Life

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hOri=1&group=5 

Fishes

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hOri=1&group=3 

Octopus and relatives

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hOri=1&group=6 

NGS Octopus

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0410/ 

Reptiles

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hOri=1&group=7 

Ocean life and facts

http://www.whaletimes.org/ 

 

Coral Reefs

general information

http://waves.marine.usf.edu/mwhome.htm

life in coral reefs

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living%5Fspecies/default.asp?hab=10 

NGS coral reef game

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0510/games/game_intro.html 

 

 

 

 

 

Polluting the Ocean