The world’s second largest ocean is the Atlantic ... The Southern Ocean is the second smallest ocean. The smallest and shallowest ocean is the Arctic Ocean. It surrounds the Arctic and the ...
Pupils could work to label a world map, showing the locations of the five oceans and could carry out research to find the approximate size of each, ranking these from largest to smallest.
The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...