Ocean Exploration Facts
The ocean exploration facts in this section provide short answers to common or intriguing ocean questions. The questions are organized in a series of categories; click on a category to learn more about these topics.
For many ocean exploration facts, content has been repurposed from essays posted elsewhere on the website; to access the original content, click on links available on individual ocean fact pages.
The water column is the largest, yet one of the most underexplored, habitats on the planet; we explore it to better understand the ocean as a whole, including the huge biomass that lives there and its importance to the global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles.
There are three kinds of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries.
Hurricanes form over tropical oceans, where warm water and air interact to create these storms.