Today we are going to learn facts about the ocean! Ocean Facts for Kids and Facts About Ocean Pollution!

Did you know that less than five percent of the planet’s oceans have been explored. The ocean has been difficult to explore and learn everything about it. But we do know these top 10 facts about the ocean!

Number 10. Our oceans cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface.
With so much of the Earth’s surface taken up by the ocean, it’s evident how important these marine environments are to the planet, and how much there still is to be explored.

Number 9 The majority of life on Earth is aquatic.
As so much of the Earth’s surface is underwater, it comes as no surprise that marine species outnumber those on land. About 94 percent of the Earth’s living species exist within the oceans.

Number 8 Over 70 percent of our planet’s oxygen is produced by the ocean.
About 70 percent of the oxygen we breathe is produced by marine plants, nearly all of which are marine algae.

Number 7 The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean and contains around 25,000 islands.
The Pacific Ocean has more islands than anywhere else.

Number 6 The Pacific is wider than the moon. At its widest point stretches from Indonesia all the way to Colombia.

Number 5 More people have been to the moon than to the Mariana Trench. One dozen people have set foot on the moon, but just three people have managed to make it to the Mariana Trench, because of the extreme conditions there.

Number 4 There are 3 million shipwrecks in the ocean. From the Titanic to Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria, the oceans are home to around 3 million shipwrecks

Number 3 There ocean has more plastic than fish
Eight million metric tons: That’s how much plastic we dump into the oceans each year. That’s about 17.6 billion pounds every single year.

Number 2 There is an island of garbage twice the size of Texas inside the Pacific Ocean: the North Pacific Gyre off the coast of California is the largest oceanic garbage site in the entire world.

Number 1 More than 90 percent of the planet's lifeforms are undiscovered and underwater. It is currently estimated that 91 percent of the species that exist under the sea have yet to be discovered

So that was the top 10 facts about oceans, that took some thinking!

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