Atlantic Ocean

Ocean Pollution: North Pacific Gyre filled with Plastic In 1997 a well-known chemist, scientific researcher and sea captain named Charles Moore, set sail from Hawaii back to his homeland, California after competing in a yacht race. Along the way, Captain Charles Moore had extra fuel to spare and decided to take a short cut through the low pressured winds of the north pacific gyre. As he and his crew reached the calm within the gyre, they were completely caught off guard as they noticed bits and…

The Atlantic World opened up tremendous ways of trading to different parts of the world. It not only gave Europeans a different outlook on the world and trading, but it gave the European powers like Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, France, and the English a new way of trade and exploration as well. With the Age of Exploration these European powers formed, and by their influences sculpted the new world as well as the old. However, some factors that these powers bring led this world to its demise and…

caused the New England colonies to build a more specialized economy that focused on factories, manufactured goods, and nautical equipment. The New England region has an environment ideal for water-powered machinery due to its close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. Harnessing waterpower to run this machinery allowed for small mills for grinding grain, processing cloth, or milling lumber. These goods were then traded with the Southern and middle colonies, the Indians, and countries such as…

any type of exchange being held. The triangular trade operated carrying crops, as well as slaves, and a lot of different goods. The trade was being held between the American, African, and Caribbean colonies. The trade stretched always across the Atlantic…

Europe had. The first advantage was that they were geographically closer, meaning that Europe was closer to the Americas that other parts of the world like Asia. A second advantage was new and improved innovations which allowed Europeans to cross the Atlantic…

trade started across the Atlantic Ocean during the sixtieth through the nineteenth century. This trade is also known as the triangular trade, which connected the economies of three continents. There is an estimate of twenty-five to thirty million people including, men, women, and children were deported from their homes and sold as slaves. The Portuguese ships were shipping the African slaves on sugar plantations in Cape Verde and Madeira islands in the eastern Atlantic. During the trade, some…

for salves to get to the new world a slave ship captain would have to take a huge risk in transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean. There were a lot of thing that could go wrong on the trip from Africa to the new world. There many different types of disease that the captain and crew were exposed to, also there was a chance that they could run into bad weather crossing the ocean, and there was a chance that there cargo could die. Most of the slaves came from the coast of Africa. Most of the…

Problem Statement: How can U.S. Fisheries prevent or decrease the harm to the ecological environment from overfishing of tuna fish? Background: The United States is overfishing the Atlantic coast with a variety of new-age fishing methods, which has destroyed and will continue to further damage our ocean’s ecological systems. Since the 21st century began, industrial fishing off the Unites States’ coasts have drastically changed in their methods to provide citizens of this country with a…

Lionfish or pterois miles have invaded the Atlantic coast line. Their original habitat is in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. They are poisonous and have spines were their venom is kept.They live in warm habitats like the tropics and are found in reefs and dark underwater crevices. First, lionfish had lived in the Indo-Pacific but, due to a hurricane and water and aquarium trades they found themselves in the Atlantic Ocean. They are also causing havoc in their new habitat. They find reefs and live…

land inevitably followed, poisoning the most placid relations with Indians in English North America. As the English replaced the Dutch as the chief trader and producer of cheap consumer goods, American colonies became more involved in the system of Atlantic commerce. Luxury goods became increasingly commonplace. The colonies within New England’s interior were overwhelmingly agricultural, as ninety percent of the population resided in rural areas. English cities in America existed primarily to…