Ocean Science

This amazing site looks at the problem of plastic pollution, offers suggested solutions, and provides links to research on the 5 global gyres. Their mission is to encourage understanding about plastic marine pollution through exploration, education, and action.

This encyclopedia article describes wind-driven currents and thermohaline currents, as well as the effects of these currents on our planet.

This will test your understanding of ocean currents. Use the items in your toolbox to get the submarine to the key (to the treasure chest).

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has diagrams and descriptions of our Earth's surface ocean currents, gyres, the Coriolis Effect and the effect of winds.

Are waves and ocean currents different? What are the characteristics of each? Play this video and test yourself.

Dive into the science of ocean currents and find out how climate change affects them. Related Lesson