have rigorously affected the marine life in Earth’s oceans by spreading their various and vast amounts of pollution. Ocean pollution is the spreading of detrimental substances such as plastic, oil, chemical particles, and industrial and agricultural waste. Being even more specific, littering. When objects are blown by the wind over long distances and end up in the ocean, this is considered pollution from the atmosphere and is a huge source of ocean pollution. Most of the debris that is dumped, especially
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Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are minuscule creatures that have been a topic of discussion due to their miraculous ability to withstand extreme conditions such as bubbling hot springs, Antarctic ice, and radiation of outer space. They are typically a sixteenth of an inch long, taupe colored and quite translucent. They have been found to eat other microscopic organisms and are consumed by larger organisms that are higher up on the food chain. No one has been positively sure about what phylum
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on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Which means sharks get protection from the government. Why are sharks important you ask? First, sharks play an important role in ecosystems as one of the top predators in the oceans. Next, sharks also keep vital habitats healthy being at the top of the food chain. Also sharks keep food webs or food chains in balance due to
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In “Acid Ocean Meets Clean Water” from Discovery News. This article is written by Kieran Mulvaney. In this article it speaks about the amount of Carbon Dioxide being absorbed by the ocean and the negative affects the ocean is getting from the amount of Carbon Dioxide level rising. One very important main idea of this article is the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. The subject of these legislation is pending in the house and Senate on the measures they will take to address the issue of pollution
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The Effects of Trash In our Oceans When someone sees trash in the water do they ever wonder just how much trash is out there? Or how it is affecting marine life? You should. In 2013 Kyra Schilling, lead author of this study, was able to look at the sea floor at a depth of 365 meters, and continued to the depth of 4,000 meters. What they found was a lot of trash, one-third of the trash was plastic, of these objects half were plastic bags. Metal was the second common form of debris found, aluminum
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There is a common conception that due to species richness within oceans, species population decline is a rarity. However, such decline may result in a damaged marine ecosystem. A top predator that plays a key role in the marine ecosystem is the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus. This species is a warm-blooded predator that is “highly migratory species that may reach a weight of 900 kg” (Ganzedo 2016). The Western, Northern Atlantic Bluefin Tuna migrates all through the Atlantic venturing primarily
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Finning is the process they use to get the irreplaceable ingredients for the soup . In this process the fisherman “cuts the sharks dorsal fins off” and releases it back into the ocean. Now with no means of which to move or swim so they all die in the long run by becoming prey, suffocating or bleeding to death. Sharks are endangered for more than just the reason of finning but the others are due to disease and other things that are
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along the each. As the Boy walks he picks up starfish that have washed up along the shore and he tosses them back into the ocean. The old man sees this happen everyday for months and finally he asks the boy what he’s doing. “Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?,” he asks. The boy responds “They die when they are left on the beach to long. They need to be in the ocean to live!”The old man is confused. He looks up and down the beach, seeing all the starfish that have come a shore. He says “Boy
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Markus McCreadie The waves crashed against the hull of the Defense. Rain poured down onto the deck soaking the crew. Lightning sliced through the sky illuminating the ship approaching from the east. As the ship sailed closer the flag was raised. Pirates. Captain Shark was a ruthless pirate captain. He took few or no prisoners. When his prisoners became too weak to labor he tied cannonballs to their hands and feet and threw them overboard. In his words he set them “free”, and told them to be glad
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the sea goblin.The sea goblinhas a pink skin color and can also grow to be about 12 feet long.In the text it says that the sea goblins teeth can grow about 26 teeth on the top layer and 24 on the bottom layer. The sea goblin lives deep in the ocean were there is little light.A goblin shark can use its tiny eyes to see in the water.If another creature comes to closeto a sea goblin it might use a suction cup hunting method to hunt its prey or for a defence. On the other side the angelfish
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