The North Sea
Our sea! Anything north oft en means
cold – which is definitely this sea! It’s
7 degrees in winter and only warms up
to 16 degrees in the summer.
Although the sea is chilly, it makes up
for it with beautiful scenery surrounding
it. Around Britain you will find amazing
cliff s, and around Norway there are the
deep water valleys called fjords (you say
it like feeyawd). Most of Europe’s
fish is caught from the North
Sea and there’s a lot of
coral, seaweed, oil and
natural gas.
Thousands of years
ago, part of the North
Sea wasn’t even there.
Instead there was land
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where mammoths, sabre- ict lly m
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toothed tigers and even
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dinosaurs once lived. Then the
temperature dropped enormously
and ice covered the land, causing the
animals to get buried under the ice.
Thousands of years passed again and
then the temperatures got warmer,
causing the ice to melt into a new area
of the North Sea. Meanwhile the buried
animals turned into fossils, covered by
sand and water. Incredibly, fisherman
have caught bones from those animals
in their fishing nets!
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