What is the world ocean?
Q: What is the world ocean?
A: The world ocean, or global ocean, is used to describe all the world's oceans as one large interconnected ocean.
Q: How many oceans are there?
A: There are five standard oceans - the Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and the proposed Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
Q: Where does the Atlantic Ocean meet the Indian Ocean?
A: The Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas.
Q: How does the Pacific connect to other oceans?
A: The Pacific connects to other oceans by meeting with the Atlantic south of South America at Cape Horn and joining with the Indian near Australia. It also joins with Arctic near Greenland and Iceland at Bering Strait.
Q: What is special about parts of Southern and Arctic Oceans?
A: Parts of both Southern and Arctic Oceans are covered in sea ice, which varies according to season.
Q: What is unique about Arctic Ocean compared to other four named oceans?
A: The Arctic is unique because it touches North America in Western hemisphere and Scandinavia and Asia in Eastern hemisphere. It is also smallest of five named oceans.
Q: How do climate change and continental drift affect our world's oceans over time?
A: Climate change happens over a short timescale while continental drift occurs over a much longer timescale; both have an effect on our world's oceans over time.
