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You can use the Measure tool to find the distance to the nearest body of water.

Citation: Map showing location of INSERT YOUR CITY NAME HERE. Google Earth, earth.google.com/web/.

Right click any location to learn coordinates, as well as enter "Measure" mode to measure distance to nearby large bodies of water.

Citation: Map showing location of INSERT YOUR CITY NAME HERE. Google Maps, https://maps.google.com/.

In 1992, a cargo ship carrying bath toys got caught in a storm. Shipping containers washed overboard, and the waves swept 28,000 rubber ducks and other toys into the North Pacific. But they didn't stick together -- the ducks have since washed up all over the world. How did this happen? Jennifer Verduin dives into the science of ocean currents.

Citation: Verduin, Jennifer. “How Do Ocean Currents Work?” Ted.com, TED Talks, 2019, www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_verduin_how_do_ocean_currents_work/transcript?subtitle=en.

Citation: Smith, Heather. “Open Surface Currents.” Arcgis.com, NatGeo - Mapmaker, 2024, www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/atlas/index.html?appid=0cd1cdee853c413a84bfe4b9a6931f0d&webmap=5a63cae1c0e54d239eb9318ea6ef24c7.

Citation: “Ocean Currents in Motion.” Arcgis.com, NatGeo -- MapMaker, 2024, www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/atlas/index.html?appid=0cd1cdee853c413a84bfe4b9a6931f0d&webmap=c69ed6f0677d4eb98d362f6d176dadf9.

Citation: Ocean Currents Map. Ocean Blue Project, oceanblueproject.org/ocean-currents-map/.

Citation: “Climate Science Investigations South Florida - Global Wind Patterns.” Www.ces.fau.edu, Center for Environmental Studies, 3 Apr. 2023, www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/content/resources/global-wind-patterns.php.

Citation: “What Are Trade Winds? | NOAA SciJinks – All about Weather.” Scijinks.gov, NOAA, scijinks.gov/trade-winds/.

Citation: “The Weather Year Round Anywhere on Earth.” Weather Spark, Cedar Lake Ventures, weatherspark.com/.

The ClimateChart application shows the climate, i.e. the temperature and the precipitation, of all places on Earth. When you click on the world map above, a climate chart is generated.

Citation: Laura Zepner, Pierre Karrasch, Felix Wiemann & Lars Bernard (2020) ClimateCharts.net – an interactive climate analysis web platform, International Journal of Digital Earth, DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2020.1829112

Check out seasons of the year for each continent and most countries!

Citation: Levchenko, Alexey. “Seasons in INSERT YOUR CITY NAME HERE.” Seasons of the Year, 2025, seasonsyear.com/.

This interactive map will show you ocean and wind currents, global temperature, and give coordinates.

Citation: Beccario, Cameron. “Earth.” Nullschool, 2019, earth.nullschool.net/.

These are instructions for each part of the NullSchool Earth map in the previous resource.

Tool to show average temperatures and precipitation for the United States up to 2020.

Citation: “U.S. Climate Atlas.” National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/climateatlas/.

Map for global winds, temperature, and precipitation.

Citation: “NOAA WeatherView.” NOAA Visualization Lab, NOAA, www.nnvl.noaa.gov/weatherview/index.html.

This interactive map will show you ocean and wind currents, global temperature, and give coordinates.

Citation: Neave Interactive. “Zoom Earth - Explore Satellite and Aerial Images of the Earth.” Zoom Earth, Zoom Earth, 2017, zoom.earth/.

This interactive map will show you ocean and wind currents, global temperature, and give coordinates.

Citation: Ventusky - Weather Forecast Maps. Ventusky, s.r.o., www.ventusky.com/.

This interactive map will show you ocean and wind currents, global temperature, and give coordinates.

Citation: Windyty, SE. Windy as Forecasted. WindyTy, 2019, www.windy.com/.

Provides global maps for temperature and precipitation (along with other interesting topics!)

Citation: “Global Maps.” Nasa.gov, NASA Earth Observatory, 4 Dec. 2019, earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps.