Oceans

Barnaby Newbolt

Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 2

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Barnaby Newbolt.

Thousands of years ago, people looked out across an ocean and asked themselves, 'What is on the other side?' And the bravest of them began to travel and find the answers – beautiful islands, frozen lands, different peoples …And there are still interesting questions about the oceans. How do they change our weather? Why does the water go up and down twice a day? Why do most animals and plants live near the land? And what can possibly live at the bottom of the ocean, thousands of metres down, where there is no light? Surely nothing can stay alive in a place like that…

BARNABY 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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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

With thanks to: Ann Fullick for expert science advice Maps and diagrams by: Peter Bull pp.3, 12, 13, 17, 23

The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: AKG-Images pp.9 (Vasca da Gama/akg), 9 (map/akg), 11 (Painting of cod fishing/akg), 27 (Mutiny on the bounty/akg); Alamy Images pp.5 (Polynesian voyaging canoe/Photo Resource Hawaii), 7 (North Wind Picture Archives/Sinbad and his companions), 26 (Oceanographer/Bruce Miller); Ardea p.16 (Hagfish/Pat Morris); Corbis pp.1 (View of Pacific Ocean/Bloomimage), 2 (Yacht sailing/Reed Kaestner), 8 (Oseberg Longship/Jose Fuste Raga), 10 (The largest containership in the world/Vincent Jannink), 19 (King Canute Holding Back the

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