{"id":11329,"date":"2021-12-30T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=11329"},"modified":"2023-02-19T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:04:12","slug":"oceanography-school-lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=11329","title":{"rendered":"Oceanography School Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Naturalist is pleased to share with you a select group of lessons from the books <a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=3045\">Whales In The Classroom, Vol. 1: Oceanography and Vol. 2: Getting To Know the Whales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?p=11035\">Oceanography Lesson 1 &#8211; Pangaea and Plate Tectonics<\/a> helps us understand how dynamic the Earth&#8217;s crust has been over time, starting with the immense land mass Pangaea many millions of years ago, leading to the continents we know today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?p=11077\">Oceanography Lesson 2 &#8211; Features of the Sea Floor and Climate Change<\/a> &#8216;drains the oceans&#8217; so we can see what the undersea topography looks like, and how immensely different our undersea world looks at different depths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?p=11126\">Oceanography Lesson 3 &#8211; Mapping The Sea Floor<\/a> takes us across the ocean floor between Nova Scotia and France, mapping the undersea features by plotting the results of depth soundings from a surface vessel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?p=11268\">Oceanography Lesson 4 &#8211; Rivers in the Sea<\/a> introduces us to the huge &#8212; and hugely important &#8212; currents that flow around the Earth, influencing sea life and weather in countless ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?p=11428\">Oceanography Lesson 5 &#8211; Marine Communities<\/a> introduces us to the concept of how communities of species live with others in a balanced ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Naturalist is pleased to share with you a select group of lessons from the books Whales In The Classroom, Vol. 1: Oceanography and Vol. 2: Getting To Know the Whales. Oceanography Lesson 1 &#8211; Pangaea and Plate Tectonics &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/?page_id=11329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11976,"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11329\/revisions\/11976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnaturalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}