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How Do Oceans Circulate? S01 E09

Today, we're going to 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.


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What is Geography?
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What is a Map?
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What is space and how do we study it?
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What is Physical Geography?
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How Does the Earth Move?
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What Does the Atmosphere Do?
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How Does Air Temperature Shape a Place?
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Where Does Wind Come From?
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How Do Oceans Circulate?
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What is a Cloud?
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What is Climate Change?
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What Are Ecosystems?
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What is Soil (and Why is it Important)?
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What Are Rocks and How Do They Form?
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The Plate Tectonics Revolution
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How Does the Earth Create Different Landforms?
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What Are Volcanoes?
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What is Weathering?
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How Rivers Shape the Landscape
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Why Does Jakarta Flood So Easily?
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Groundwater & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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What Are Glaciers?
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Natural Hazards
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What is Human Geography?
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Race, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Landscape
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How Does Language Move?
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How Did Religion Spread Along the Silk Road?
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Where and Why Do People Move?
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How Populations Grow and Change
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How Does Disease Move?
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What are the Patterns of Border Conflicts?
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Colonialism
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What is a “Developed” Country?
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GMOs and their Role in Agriculture
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Why is There Uneven Access to Food?
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How Do We Produce Food?
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Mineral Extraction
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Why are People Moving to Cities?
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How Are Cities Organized?
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What is Urban Planning?
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How did Detroit Become the Motor City?
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Sustainable Urban Design
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Geographies of the Future
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