Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

How Do Oceans Circulate? Crash Course Geography #9

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

7

Overview

In this video, students take a closer look at how the oceans circulate by following the life of a discarded water bottle as it gets snagged in the North Pacific Garbage Patch. We'll talk about what causes the movement of water, called current, both near the surface and much deeper in the oceans, and we'll show how they follow similar (but not identical) paths to the winds. Ocean circulation plays a huge role in cycling vital nutrients within the seas and helps us transport goods on ships across the globe and it's up to us to protect it.

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 7 - 7th Grade: Geography

    SS10.7G.3

    Compare geographic patterns in the environment that result from processes within the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere of Earth’s physical systems.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.7G.3

    Vocabulary

    • geographic or spatial patterns
    • regions
    • compare
    • geographic issues
    • human and natural processes

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Geographic patterns in the environment that result from processes within the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere of Earth's physical systems.
    • Earth-Sun relationships regarding seasons, fall hurricanes, monsoon rainfalls, and tornadoes.
    • Processes that shape the physical environment, including long-range effects of extreme weather phenomena, such as plate tectonics, glaciers, ocean and atmospheric circulation, El Niño long-range effects—erosion on agriculture, typhoons on coastal ecosystems.
    • Characteristics and physical processes that influence the spatial distribution of ecosystems and biomes on Earth's surface.
    • How ecosystems vary from place to place and over time, such as alteration or destruction of natural habitats due to effects of floods and forest fires, reduction of species diversity due to loss of natural habitats, reduction of wetlands due to replacement by farms, reduction of forest and farmland due to replacement by housing developments, reduction of previously cleared land due to reforestation efforts.
    • Geographic issues in different regions that result from human and natural processes.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Interpret reasons for spatial patterns of Earth's regions.
    • Compare variations between and within geographic regions.
    • Explain processes that shape the physical environment.
    • Compare and explain geographic issues in different regions.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Spatial patterns are caused by human and physical processes in the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and the hydrosphere.
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    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    CrashCourse
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

    Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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