What If We Drained the Oceans?

What If We Drained the Oceans?


The adaptive nature of water and ocean species is detailed here, with an emphasis on the immediate impact on global ecosystems and the planet’s water cycle, illustrating a dangerous domino effect. Cosmo explains how ocean plant life is responsible for the air humans and animals on land breathe, plus the importance of oceans in supplying billions of people with food.  

Topic: Growth and Changes in Animals

Cosmoriculum: 

  • Investigate the ways in which a variety of animals adapt to their environment 
  • Describe an adaptation as a characteristic body part, shape, or behaviour that helps a plant or animal survive in its environment

Topic: Air and Water in the Environment

Cosmoriculum: 

  • Identify water as a clear, colourless, odourless, tasteless liquid that exists in three states and that is necessary for the life of most animals and plants
  • Describe ways in which living things, including humans, depend on water 
  • Identify sources of water in the natural and built environment


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