During a trip to California, we took the opportunity to visit the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Oceanography Institute with our cousins. During that trip, we saw plenty of marine life, as well as looking at plenty of issues concerning the ocean. Here, I will go over some of the issues and marine life we explored at the Birch Aquarium.
When we first walked in, a man with a strange contraption, two plastic boxes on a table, said, “Want to see a flood?”
Interested, we walked over and saw that there was water flowing from the first box into the other through a hole. The boxes were filled with sand and little toy people.
He said, “There are two types of flooding we could have here. One is the water building up, and flowing over the sand. The other is the water kind of eroding the sand on the bottom, and …show more content…
There were more commonly seen aquarium animals, such as sharks, seahorses, rays, puffer fish, jellyfish, and shrimp.
We also participated in some activities. They included a live broadcast from a filming room to the TV outside, creating electricity through bicycles, seeing which lightbulbs took the least energy, petting anemones, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins, and redirecting water flow to sail little boats on.
During this trip, we came upon many international issues, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the oceans, causing the acidity to rise. Another was human energy consumption, and how it pollutes. These issues are very important, when we think of future generations to come. What kind of world are we leaving them? The answer is simple. The world we are leaving to future humankind is going to be whatever world we choose to make. Either make an effort to save it, or don’t.
In the end, this trip was very educational, very fun, and very grounding at the same time. I learned a lot from it, and I hope you learned something
When we first walked in, a man with a strange contraption, two plastic boxes on a table, said, “Want to see a flood?”
Interested, we walked over and saw that there was water flowing from the first box into the other through a hole. The boxes were filled with sand and little toy people.
He said, “There are two types of flooding we could have here. One is the water building up, and flowing over the sand. The other is the water kind of eroding the sand on the bottom, and …show more content…
There were more commonly seen aquarium animals, such as sharks, seahorses, rays, puffer fish, jellyfish, and shrimp.
We also participated in some activities. They included a live broadcast from a filming room to the TV outside, creating electricity through bicycles, seeing which lightbulbs took the least energy, petting anemones, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins, and redirecting water flow to sail little boats on.
During this trip, we came upon many international issues, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the oceans, causing the acidity to rise. Another was human energy consumption, and how it pollutes. These issues are very important, when we think of future generations to come. What kind of world are we leaving them? The answer is simple. The world we are leaving to future humankind is going to be whatever world we choose to make. Either make an effort to save it, or don’t.
In the end, this trip was very educational, very fun, and very grounding at the same time. I learned a lot from it, and I hope you learned something