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CLIL lesson – Geography
Running dictation text
The Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the world’s second largest
ocean after the Pacific. Its area is about 106 million
square kilometres, covering about one-fifth of the
Earth’s surface. It is surrounded on the west by the
Americas, the north east by Eurasia and the south-
east by Africa. To the south east it meets the Indian
Ocean and to the north is the Arctic Ocean. Some
say that it goes as far south as Antarctica, but others
say that it meets the Southern Ocean to the south.
The equator splits the Atlantic in the middle into the
North and South Atlantic Oceans.
The average depth is about 3.3 kilometres and the
deepest point is the Puerto Rico Trench which is
about 8.6 kilometres deep. There is a mountain
range (the Mid Atlantic Ridge) along the bottom in
the middle which runs from north to south. This is the
longest mountain range in the world.
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