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Part 2

Finding Your Way Around

IN THIS PART …

Explore different ways to divide the ocean into zones based on depth, light, distance from shore, and other factors … and understand why we divide the ocean into zones.

Grasp the concept of marine ecosystems — biological “neighborhoods” where organisms have evolved over time in response to their interactions with their environment and with one another. (Well, now you’ve grasped it.)

Visit the most popular ocean ecosystems from mudflats, estuaries, and mangrove forests along the coasts to offshore kelp beds and coral reefs to ecosystems that form around hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in the deep ocean.

Explore the geophysics of the ocean — the contours of the ocean floor, how it was shaped over time, what’s on and below the seafloor … those sorts of things.