Oceans Have Saved Us From The Worst Of Climate Change Now We Must Save The Oceans

We often think of earth in terms of its land area, but in reality 71% of the earth's surface is covered by oceans, while only 29% is land. Oceans cover an area of 139 million miles 2 or 361. The vast bodies of water surrounding the continents are critical to life on earth.

For practical and historical reasons, it is customary to divide the world ocean into a set of five major oceans. By convention these are the pacific, atlantic, indian, arctic, and southern. Map of earth's five oceans: Although there is only one global ocean, geographers have divided it into five major regions (which are also called oceans). The atlantic ocean, the.