Phytoplankton

The Chesapeake Bay is a marine aquatic life zone biome. This estuary is a mixture of salt water and fresh water. This is a sub biome of the Aquatic. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and third largest in the world. An estuary is a body of water where the salt water of the ocean mixes with the fresh water of rivers and streams. The Bay is 200 miles long and flows through the states of Virginia and Maryland. More than 150 rivers, creeks, and streams flow into the…

eaten. Adaptations include camouflage and poison. Producers like Halophila seagrasses, diatoms, cyanobacteria, mangrove trees, zooxanthellae, sea lettuce, caulerpa, dinoflagellates, coccolithophore, and rhodophyta, whether they are green plants or phytoplankton, all adapt to stay in the reef. Adaptations include roots that anchor the organisms into the mud and protective cell walls. Coral is a keystone species of the GBR. Without them, the reef’s biodiversity would dramatically decrease,…

atmosphere. Launching solar shields into the orbit could reduce the solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface by eight percent. Phytoplankton’s serve as a virtual carbon sink. Depositing iron filings in the oceans will encourage the growth of phytoplankton. Thus, reducing carbon. This is called ocean fertilization. Substituting carbonic acid in the oceans with hydrochloric acid will speed up the rate at which carbon dioxide is absorbed. Subsequently, another way to reduce the amount of carbon…

equal levels of predator and prey; when a pond is able to sustain both levels, it equals out to a fully operational food chain. When the organisms reach their demise, their bodies add nutrients back into the water and allows better growth for both phytoplankton and rooted water…

Title The Effects of Global Warming on the Oceans Marine Life Research Ocean acidification has occurred slowly since the industrial revolution, as mankind began to add excess amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. CO2, one of the greenhouse gases produced in excess, was absorbed by the ocean, and the effects of this gas are devastating to marine life and their ecosystems. The CO2 produces carbonic acid, which lowers the pH of saltwater, and this in turn creates a harmful environment…

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people. As a result of this explosion, the BP pipe had leaked oil and gas on the ocean floor approximately 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. It wasn’t until almost 3 months later, when the Macondo wellhead, that is located 5,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, was able to be capped off. However, by this time an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had already leaked into the Gulf, noting this to be…

The Susquehanna River is home for many: animals, fish and people alike. It is also a key contributor to the Chesapeake Bay, being the largest tributary within the watershed. The pollution of the Susquehanna directly impacts the health of the bay. To understand the importance of the river to the bay, it is necessary to understand what is causing pollution and what solutions can be introduced to lessen the negative impacts. Pennsylvania is a large participant in rural farming as well as urban…

Most animals especially marine species on the Earth right now are struggling to face one major problem that they cannot resist it from happens which is extinction of their own kinds. This issue is what most human just ignore about and they tend not to deal with it. History of Earth shows that there are five major extinction events and the fifth extinction is the one that killed every dinosaur on the Earth surface as a result of an asteroid. Earth is now in the eve of sixth extinction as humanity…

Fishing activities are considered one of the three most substantial threats to coral reefs health today (Roberts, 2009). It causes many negative direct and indirect effects on aquatic structure and communities, and in many cases, leads to species extirpation or extinction (Roberts, 2009). Fish species within the coral reef ecosystems play important functioning roles that help support many different coral reef processes (Bellwood et al., 2004). Species richness and high levels of biodiversity are…

My career interest is a Marine Biologist. A Marine Biologist is a person that studies the life of many organisms that are in any types of body of water and learn how they affect their environment. With this I can research the organisms that live the ocean, and probably find a new species of animals or plants. The salary of a Marine Biologist is not high, but it is not low. The actual salary an average of $51,289 per year. The lifestyle of Marine Biologists is that they usually go out to Oceans…