The Ocean Biome

Ocean Biome Characteristics
The earth is 70% water. 97% of this water is made up of our oceans and seas.

Most of us only experience the ocean from the beach or on shore. If you go underwater and out into the ocean you discover it is teaming with life.

The ocean can be divided into 5 major oceans
The Pacific which is the largest, the Atlantic, Indian, southern, and the Arctic ocean.

The ocean is teeming with life. It includes animals as large as a 40-foot humpback whale and as small as microscopic plankton.
It includes a huge variety of plants and coral reefs that stretch for miles.
It also includes the largest mountain range called the mid ocean ridge.
The ocean impacts our weather and has been used for thousands of years as trade routes.

We play on the beaches of oceans and wonder what can be found in the Mariana trench which is 32,000 feet deep.

So there you have a very quick overview of our most diverse and largest biome-the ocean