Water & Oceans
9 interactive Geography simulations on water & oceans.
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Watershed pollution and water quality testing
Geography · Water & Oceans
A river flows past forest, farmland, a town, a sewage treatment works, a factory and a power plant. Choose the...
Ages 15–16
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Ocean Warming and Acidification – Coral Bleaching and Dissolving Shells
Geography · Water & Oceans
Raise atmospheric CO₂ and sea surface warming and watch the ocean respond: CO₂ dissolves to form H₂CO₃, which...
Ages 15–16
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2D + 3D
Ocean Currents – Winds, the Coriolis Effect and the Global Conveyor Belt
Geography · Water & Oceans
A world map (with an optional 3D globe) of the major surface currents flowing in gyres: warm currents (red) run...
Ages 15–16
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Water supply and scarcity – demand, transfers and groundwater
Geography · Water & Oceans
An imaginary region with a wet, thinly populated northern basin and a dry southern basin with a coastal city and...
Ages 15–16
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Virtual Fieldwork – River and Beach Enquiries
Geography · Water & Oceans
A complete fieldwork enquiry on screen: choose a hypothesis, a sampling strategy (systematic, random or stratified)...
Ages 15–16
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Flood Hydrograph – Storm Rainfall, Land Use and River Floods
Geography · Water & Oceans
A drainage basin (watershed divide, tributaries, confluence, gauging station and a town at the outlet) receives a...
Ages 15–16
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2D + 3D
Tides from Moon–Sun position, and sea waves
Geography · Water & Oceans
Viewed from above the North Pole: the pull of the Moon and Sun heaps ocean water into two tidal bulges; as Earth...
Ages 15–16
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Irrigation and groundwater – efficiency, water table, waterlogging and salinisation
Geography · Water & Oceans
The Irrigated field screen is a cross-section through a dry farming district: choose the irrigation method (flood,...
Ages 15–16
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The water cycle and tides
Geography · Water & Oceans
An animated sea–mountain scene: seawater evaporates under the Sun's heat (evaporation speeds up as temperature...
Ages 11–12
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