Atlantic Ocean

in the world’s oceans, and each year, 8 million tons of plastic are added to the count. That’s equivalent to one municipal garbage truck pulling up to the beach and dumping its contents every minute" (Groden). Pollution in the ocean has become a serious problem. Plastic disperses quickly throughout the ocean, causing harm to the coastlines and the open water. As time progresses cleaning up the plastic litter in the ocean will become more difficult. Humans need to clean up the ocean because,…

government the Bermuda triangle is still a mystery, and a very mysterious mystery at that. The methane gas theory is quite believable, here’s why. When methane gas gets released into the water and makes it thinner so boats sink to the bottom of the ocean. When that happens the boat goes into the space that the gas was released, that creates the…

Water is something we cannot live without. Oceans are large bodies of water. We rely on them for many things. We need to better understand dead zones and their impacts on ecosystems as well as people. Dead zones are expanding, which decreases the water quality and can even be harmful to the economy. Another problem we face with oceanic dead zones is eutrophication. What are dead zones? What is eutrophication? What is their correlation to each other and why are they important? Where…

Ocean Literacy #5d states, “Ocean biology provides many unique examples of life…, adaptations… that do not occur on land.” Striped bass (Mornoe saxatilis) have many adaptations, such as an inferior mouth, to grab food below because they are carnivorous. They have a rounded tail for short burst of speed t get away from bigger predators, and a fusiform body for high speeds. The striped bass live all the way north of Canada, all the way down to Florida. The striped bass mostly live in Chesapeake…

The Reedy Fork Creek and Buffalo Creek bowl (Figure 1) in Greensboro are framed from precipitation that keeps running off impenetrable and pervious surfaces, and from water that leaks up from neighborhood springs and in the long run winds up in the Ocean, only south of Wilmington, NC. The bowl is situated in a move zone between warm-mild and sub-tropical atmospheres and fits in with a warm-calm, semi-damp mainland atmosphere with cool and parched winters and warm and moist summers. The yearly…

In the early 1920’s, a group of dauntless Norwegian sailors attempted a voyage no one had ever successfully mastered. Through the rushing, diligent, and harsh waters of the cold Antarctic these men voyaged to the isolated island of Bouvet. As this accomplishment was exciting enough, the zoologist on board, Ditlef Rustad, discovered a fish like no other vertebrae ever seen. The Chaenocephalus aceratus, as it was deemed, changed thoughts of evolution with its physical appearance,defied rules of…

The Mary Celeste set out on its journey to the Azores but was found abandoned 400 miles east of it. The crew men's belongings were left in their quarters and the ship’s charts had been tossed about. The only lifeboat on the ship was missing and one of the two pumps had been disassembled, and three and a half feet of water was found in the bottom of the ship. The cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol was still intact, and a six month supply of food and water was left (Blumberg). The…

The Atlantic Slave Trade conditions were extremely harsh for the slaves. Most of the slaves were African American and of course hated what they had to go through. The Atlantic Slave Trade lasted from the 15th through the 19th centuries, across the Atlantic Ocean. Slaves were chained down in the lower deck where the air was humid and hot. Slaves were put right next to each other with no room to move around. They would get excrements that would leak through the board above the ones on the lower…

Christopher Columbus is a celebrated national holiday because he was an explorer who sailed the ocean and “discovered” the Americas. Originally, Columbus was in search for a trade route to the Indies. Instead, he came across a whole new world known as the Americas. As a result of this, Columbus spread Western Ideals throughout the world which resulted in opening new doors for Europe. Europeans would soon flock to the Americas in search of a new life and was also a safe haven for others to…

in a sea of garbage,” this is an excerpt of the passage “Garbage Swell.” The author is explaining one of the many effects that humans are having on the availability and condition of the water. Humans in society nowadays are harming the water in the ocean, are affecting the quality of the water in the world, and are wasting a significant amount of water. This report will be talking about how the actions of humans have and are changing the availability and quality of water. Water conservation is…