your phone or laptop and you see a picture of the ocean. Most of these pictures show clear and pretty water with maybe a sunset behind it. Not all parts of the sea appear this way‚ however they should be. Pollution is everywhere in the water and it’s harming almost everything in it- from coral reefs to whales. But polluting the water just might be even more complex than you may think. So‚ to get you started‚ we will hit some of the basics of ocean pollution. You most likely know that plastic is a
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Ocean Pollution It is believed that 4.6 billion years ago our Earth was formed. And over 200 million years ago the great body of water on this planet‚ what we call the ocean‚ was able to be formed (History of the Ocean). For 200 million years our ocean has flourished with the life of all matters of creatures from some of the first ever cells to take life‚ to pre-historic dinosaurs‚ to the fish‚ plants‚ and mammals we see today. However‚ today we face a new point in the history of our ocean. Today
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Stacy Servoss Ms. Hines Eng. 090-D01 15 July‚ 2013 The Effects the Moon Has On the Ocean Tide The moon’s gravity affects tides on the earth. The sun and moon together pull on the earth’s oceans in different directions to create tides. But there are several other factors that complicate this process. Friction is the earth’s rotation and axis tilt on the sun and moon’s gravitational pull on the earth. This forces push on the earth’s atmosphere‚ creating high tides and low tides. The gravity
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Ocean Dumping: Key Issues Liz Gomez Ocean Dumping: Key Issues Marine debris is the official designation and referents to human created wastes that pollutes and are dumped deliberately or accidentally in lakes‚ waterways‚ seas and oceans. While certain debris naturally float on bodies of water (i.e. logs and trees that got cut via natural events)‚ certain communities‚ peoples and industries the world over deliberately dump debris and garbage in bodies of water without much thought into the
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Discussion Section-1 November 17‚ 2011 The other CO₂ Problem Todays oceans are not the same as they once were prior to the industrial revolution. The ocean serves as a reservoir for the worlds green house gasses. The increase in anthropogenic CO₂ has also resulted in an increase in the uptake by the ocean of CO₂. As a result of this uptake‚ the ocean is becoming progressively more and more acidic. This acidification of the ocean is expected to have great impacts on marine ecosystems. Coral reefs
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Have you ever thought about how ocean acidification affects organisms that live in the ocean‚ or even what ocean acidification is? First off‚ ocean acidification is a term used to describe significant changes to the chemistry of the ocean. This happens when carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean and reacts with seawater to produce acid. Ocean acidification affects many organisms’ homes and shelters. It also destroys many reef ecosystems. Ocean acidification is a bad thing. It’s bad because it
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The Ocean matters. The coral reef is a home to more than 3‚000 species of fish‚ 700 species of hard coral and around 100 other species. Scientists say that there could be 1-8 million undercovered species. If not protected all these species have nowhere to go and the undiscovered species will likely not be discovered. We cannot let these species die a whole ecosystem will be lost. Ocean Conservancy was created in 1972‚ they offer 2‚300‚000 jobs to people. Over the 25 years the organization was
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Ocean OverfishingNicole HarrisENV/320June 23‚ 2014Frederick GrossOcean Overfishing Overfishing is a problem that occurs when fish are caught faster than they can reproduce. This is a problem that has been occurring for centuries and continues to be a problem today. Commercial fishing has driven many fish species to the brink of extinction. A scientific report done in 2003 estimates that industrial fishing “has reduced the number of large ocean fish to just 10-percent of their pre-industrial
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“what is destroying the ocean?”. Well one of the many answers is microplastic. Microplastics are little pieces of plastic that are smaller than 5 millimeters. Microplastic is harming zooplankton in many ways ‚ but not only zooplankton a lot of other fish also in many ways. When people leave plastic on the ground it eventually makes its way to the ocean . Microplastics are thrown into the ocean by people which is causing fish to die. There is a lot of microplastic in the ocean which is a serious problem
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decrease) in salinity around the equator? Could it not be argued that higher temperature causes more evaporation from the ocean surface‚ which‚ in turn‚ results in higher salinity content? Figure 9.4 shows how the surface temperature of the ocean and the surface salinity change with latitudinal position. Salinity the measure of the concentration of dissolved salts in the ocean water. Salinity influences where plants and animals can thrive‚ and also affects aspects of water quality and treatment
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