Sea Environment Essay

Register to read the introduction… Along the bottom, kelp, sea grass, and also sandy beaches cover the ocean 's rim; also with the help of coral reefs, mangroves, marshes, and rocky and muddy habitats. Those that live on the bottom crawl, slither, and burrow themselves into the sediments. Others, stay fixed on one place and stay stationary there. Examples of these are algae, see grass, sea urchins, mollusks, etc. A change in water temperature, salinity, and sometimes wave energy, determines how and where deep sea creatures live and their physical characteristics. Finding space to live on the bottom of the sea floor is as competitive as it is fierce. For the most part, the only reason we know so much more about the deep water is because the creatures are slow, which unable them to avoid the attempts of scientists to collect and study …show more content…
Most creatures along the shoreline partner up together for food. For example, the ocean wrasse and certain fish. Thanks to the cleaner wrasse, fish stay healthy. The wrasse cleans particles of food from fish 's teeth, gills, and skin. Another form of adaptation is the way creatures have special ways of griping onto the rocky bottoms so they are not swept away. For example, sea slugs have a sticky, glue – like bottom. Their bottom sticks to the rock and helps them climb either up or down with out falling off which would endanger them more to be eaten by predators. A third adaptation for animals of the deep, is blending in with their surroundings and light. For example, the great white shark swims at the bottom of the ocean silently while hunting for its prey. The fish higher up can not see the shark due to blending in with the darkness and attacks instantly one it sees its …show more content…
This far down in the ocean, the water is close to freezing and its pressure is extremely strong. The fish and other creatures still have eyes this deep down in the sea, but much larger because of the darkness. But, the closer to the bottom of the floor, the species have smaller and smaller eyes, where it comes to the point that they are so tiny it seems that some are actually eyeless, or they really are eyeless! Due to the certain depth animals migrate at, they can have weak developed central nervous systems, a weak skeleton, and the missing of a swim bladder. Other characteristics that species have being so deep in the ocean is having curved in teeth and longer jaws. Also, a bigger head to make sure that once its prey is caught, it wont escape. The scarce food and low temperatures lower the growth rate in species and increases the longevity and period of time to sexual maternity, therefore, resulting in enormous