A current problem impacting the island of Tonga is the coral reef is being damaged. One solution to this problem is using our water supply for things we need and not for things not needed. According to coral reef.gov, the text states don't leave unwanted or nets in or out of the water. Any kind of litter pollutes the water and can harm the reef and fish. This shows that if people leave unwanted fishing gear on or off of the shore of Tonga or any kind of litter pollutions in the water, it can harm
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Career Search Do you love water? Well, if you do you might want to try the careers I’m interested in. Hyperbaric Welding (Underwater welding). Hyperbaric welding is the process of welding at elevated pressures, normally underwater. I’m interested in this type of job because I love being in the water and welding looks fun and interesting to me. Think of something underwater that you can’t bring to the surface to weld it; well, that’s what underwater welders are for. If you need something welded
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I find this article very interesting and would never have realized the importance of fish pee to coral reef. As a scuba diver myself, I am aware that coral reefs are very important to the underwater environment and how important it is to not destroy them. Care must always be taken when we are around them because it takes more than 10,000 years for a coral reef to grow back, growing from three tenths of a centimeter to ten centimeters a year. Knowing that fish pee and other wastes can help coral
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The effects for the adult fishes become harder for them to produce their eggs. The grown-up fishes are not the only ones with all the medical effects, but the eggs that they create can damage their eggs. When the oil comes in contact with the eggs of the fishes and shellfishes, the survival of the eggs are, in most cases, minimal to live a healthy life. Arctic oil drilling is an unsafe, threatening, business that is making a negative effect on this sensitive environment. This sure sort of business
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Robert Smeethile hated ship rides, and Robert Smeethile was me. I was on a ship, going to Mr. John Sutter's mill to tell him information about our deal about wood supply. The trip was taking five months now and I was getting pretty bored. People in the ship were dressed up as if they were going to go to work in the forest and had strange tools and machines. I wondered what this was all about. But I only wanted to tell Mr. Sutter all my stuff and go right back to my home in England. Then, all of
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The article is called “Oceans of pollution” (Al Jazeera, 18 June 2012), Dahr Jamail. He shows the plastic pollution in the oceans on the Earth’s crisis. If the issue is not addressed, it will be unpredictable long-term consequences, with a mass extinction of ocean species. His rhetorical goals of explaining are quotations from scientific experts, cause-and-effect reasoning, and powerful visual imagery. The stimulus for the article was a series of scientific studies that demonstrate the dramatic
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The Paddlefish is a large fish native to the Mississippi river. The Paddlefish has a long body and has a paddle looking snout, small eyes that are set forward, and a shark-like tail. The Paddlefish has no scales except for those on its throat, pectoral girdle, and tail fin. This large fish can grow up to 2.2 m (7.3 ft) and can weigh over 23 kg (50 lbs); "historically, paddlefish have been reported to be over 91kg (200 lbs)." Paddlefish live in the open waters of large rivers and river lakes, like
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Marine salt Marine salt is used to emulate an ocean setting for an aquarium. Maintaining a marine or salt water aquarium takes exacting science to make it work. Too much marine salt and the environment because too acidic causing coral die off as well as fish. Not enough marine salt and the aquatic life will fail to thrive. There are numerous kinds of marine salt from magnesium loaded salt to special formulations designed to feed reef coral. Specialized marine salt can be formulated for mineral
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Daphnia magna is a transparent water flea species found in rocky pools along the Atlantic Ocean. The Daphnia’s body is encased in a clear structure called carapace (Elenbaas, 2013). The exoskeleton, carapace, provides protection for the Daphnia magna, “The portion of the hard exoskeleton, or shell, that covers all or part of the body of many crustaceans…” (“Definition, n.d.). As John Clare says, “Generally the life span increases as temperature decreases, due to lowered metabolic activity” (2002)
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Devil Track Lake The four children Tommy, Jeff, Timmy, and Beff going to test out there wooden cart that they built. Jeff and Timmy put the cart on the railroad track that went all the way across the lake. The wheels on the cart were able the ride on the railing of the track. All four children got in the cart. Tommy then realized that they were missing something, the sail. since all four of them were in the cart, the cart was not going to move by itself. So then Timmy got out the cart and grabbed
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