Argumentative Essay: The Amazing Things About The Ocean
INFORMATIVE ESSAY
BY David Adeoso
In this essay I am going to write about the ocean and all the amazing things about the ocean that some people might not know. Growing up I was never interested in the ocean or things like that but as I am starting to grow the world and the ocean are starting to become much more fascinating to me. There are many amazing things about the ocean and what lives in it some things that are amazing to me are that Earth is the only known planet or moon to have large bodies of liquid water on its surface. Our planet lies in the zone that’s not too hot, not too cold and with enough atmospheric pressure to prevent liquid surface water from evaporating into space. Although scientists and explorers don't know of any other planets or moons with liquid water oceans, it's likely that they do exist and they just haven't found them. In our own solar system, there is growing evidence that the planet Mars may have liquid water not on the surface but underground. There is also strong evidence …show more content…
Plastic trash takes a very long time to degrade in the oceans. The actions of sunlight and wave motion tend to break plastic objects into smaller and smaller pieces until they eventually become smaller than a grain of sand. That's why there is no obvious floating island of plastic debris, but rather a fine soup of plastic particles floating in the water column. These fine particles are now thought to act like sponges, concentrating pollutants such as PCBs, DDT and PAHs. When the particles are ingested by filter feeding sea creatures, they enter the food chain and ultimately into fish destined for human consumption. They also harbor unique colonies of microbes, but it is too early to say what impact this emerging 'plastisphere' will have on marine ecological
BY David Adeoso
In this essay I am going to write about the ocean and all the amazing things about the ocean that some people might not know. Growing up I was never interested in the ocean or things like that but as I am starting to grow the world and the ocean are starting to become much more fascinating to me. There are many amazing things about the ocean and what lives in it some things that are amazing to me are that Earth is the only known planet or moon to have large bodies of liquid water on its surface. Our planet lies in the zone that’s not too hot, not too cold and with enough atmospheric pressure to prevent liquid surface water from evaporating into space. Although scientists and explorers don't know of any other planets or moons with liquid water oceans, it's likely that they do exist and they just haven't found them. In our own solar system, there is growing evidence that the planet Mars may have liquid water not on the surface but underground. There is also strong evidence …show more content…
Plastic trash takes a very long time to degrade in the oceans. The actions of sunlight and wave motion tend to break plastic objects into smaller and smaller pieces until they eventually become smaller than a grain of sand. That's why there is no obvious floating island of plastic debris, but rather a fine soup of plastic particles floating in the water column. These fine particles are now thought to act like sponges, concentrating pollutants such as PCBs, DDT and PAHs. When the particles are ingested by filter feeding sea creatures, they enter the food chain and ultimately into fish destined for human consumption. They also harbor unique colonies of microbes, but it is too early to say what impact this emerging 'plastisphere' will have on marine ecological