Oceans - Barnaby Newbolt Level 2

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RNABY NEWBOLT

      Oceans

      OCEANS

      There is more ocean on our planet than there is land, but we still know little about it. The first ship sailed all the way around the world less than five hundred years ago. And the first journey to the deepest sea floor was little more than fifty years ago.

      Great waves move across the surface of the ocean, and currents of cold and warm water move past our continents. The biggest animals on our planet swim around the Southern Ocean, and in the hottest parts of the ocean we can find animals that live without light. It is a strange world – and we are just beginning to know it …

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