The wonder of water
The sea is, of course, water—the stuff we drink, wash in, cook with, and swim in, and the stuff that falls from the sky when it rains. Water is so common we take it for granted. But it’s actually…
The gift from the sea
Without the sea, there would be no life on the land. Snow, piled up on mountaintops, melts and trickles down mountainsides to become rivers. Rain and snow that fall to earth soak into the ground and…
The world ocean
Look at a globe from the top or the bottom. You will see that all the oceans are really joined to one another and form a single body of water. More than three-quarters of our world is covered with…
The birth of the sea
The sea may have been formed by tremendous rains. Or, it may have been formed by steam from inside the earth. Scientists think the earth was formed more than four and one-half billion years ago….
