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    extensive human activities have affected these oceans in a very disastrous manner. Marine pollution also known as Ocean pollution, is the introduction of harmful substances such as waste from industries, effluents, sewage, oil , agricultural waste etc into the ocean (Derraik,2002). The oceans are a known home to a large variety of flora and fauna. The pollution has started affecting the marine habitat adversely. Marine pollution not only affects the seas and oceans but the whole earth (Islam…

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    Beach Nourishment (or also known as beach replenishment) is the process of dumping or pumping sand from another place onto an eroding shoreline or a shoreline in the process of erosion to create, or expand the length and width of the existing beach. However, Beach nourishment does not stop erosion, it just repairs the destruction caused by the tidal waves for awhile. The waves will erode the nourished sand as an alternative instead of damaging houses, roads, recreational spots, or parking lots.…

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    The Story of Paka Panda Written by Sytun Baldwin Illustrations by Heather Hillard-Bonds Monday morning, Paka looked over the glacier. He licked his paws, yawned and played with ice. The ice surrounding him, where he often played with Patsy the penguin, was as white as sugar. Now, Patsy, mind you, was a character. She was always laughing, joking, and pulling pranks. That’s why Paka loved her so, because she was full of much fun. Skip, skip, hop-hop, waddle, waddle, all the way to…

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    Sea Otters Lab Report

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    Nhuy Nguyen Mrs. Pirchio AICE Marine Science 27 September 2015 Hunter and the Hunted Interrelation Population 1. Introduction: From Mexico, to Alaska, and even within Japan, there’s a high chance of being able to visit areas where sea otters can be sighted. Sea otters, also known scientifically as, Enhydra lutris, inhabit shallow coastal areas and they prefer places with a lot of kelp. They use the kelp surrounding them to wrap themselves in while they’re resting. They are very sociable…

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    information regarding this topic. How does ocean pollution affect marine animals and why is important? Well to start off ocean pollution is very dangerous to the marine animals that live in the ocean because they can get stuck in the litter that gets thrown into the drains or places where the trash can go into the ocean or get stuck in trash for example a plastic bag could get wrapped around their head and they can’t get it off. Marine animals aren’t like humans as in they can’t take off the…

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    to survive. But could it be too much? We have of plenty of fish, right? Wrong. Small fishing in ponds, lakes, and sea sides by one or two people won’t make much of a difference, but with the main fishing companies hauling thousands to millions of marine life out of the oceans daily, it will be. This is overfishing; depleting stocks of fish in a body of water by too much fishing. This is the problem that will be explained by this paper, as well as the background of it and possible solutions to…

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    Coral Reef Bleaching

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    Coral Reef Bleaching Coral reef bleaching, which is the whitening of diverse invertebrate taxa. The cause of the whitening is “from the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or a reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in zooxanthellae residing within the gastrodermal tissues of host animals.” (P.W.Glynn) The reason why coral reef bleaching is such a concern is because the “consequences of bleaching large numbers of reef-building scleractinian corals and hydrocorals.”(P.W.Glynn)…

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    This article talks about how much things people are getting away in international water. One of the things that people get away with is polluting the water in the ocean intentionally. This is wrong for many reasons;the major reasons is that a lot of fishes and animals that depend on that water to live in and eat are dying because of all the oil being dumped there. Another reason is that it’s not just the ocean that is being polluted, but the air is also being polluted and that affects all of us…

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    jeopardy when the ocean is polluted. Ocean Pollution includes everything from the extreme to the small scale: oil spills, acid dumping and plastic pollution-- human activities and basic carelessness. Problems evolving from ocean pollution directly harm marine life and the Earth's many valuable resources. Ocean Pollution is a long-term problem that has expanded over the past few decades. In his novel The Exxon Valdez, Dils addresses what has happened with the catastrophe event of the of the…

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    Argumentative Essay Outline Imagine good pictures of marine life in action.Rovs ( Remotely operated vehicle ) are good for going under water without being cold. People that don’t agree would say Rovs are not valuable because they are to big. However, ROVs are ABSOLUTELY valuable to underwater research because They can go underwater to take good pictures, Rovs can bring up artifacts without freezing to death, and They are remote operated so they can do what you want them to do. The…

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