Phytoplankton

are doing their job by not allowing other species to overpopulate and destroy the species below them. Studies have shown that the nutrients in sperm whale poop helps stimulate the growth of phytoplankton (why are whales). Phytoplankton receives their energy from carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. Phytoplankton helps provide a healthier environment for all marine animals. Whale watching has brought in billions of dollars helping the economic growth in various cities, states, and countries.…

A solution to reversing ocean acidification is to simply quit or limit air pollution. This idea may be very simple, but requires great efforts because some developed countries have become so dependent on the combustion of hydrocarbons as an energy source. By limiting pollution such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide, acids would not be able to form within the atmosphere to create acidic solutions. The cut-off of air pollution would also solve other environmental problems. The…

Lead (Pb) is one of an important contaminant surrounding our environment. Lead occur naturally in all soil and water (1), or can be found deep within the ground located in ore (2). Although lead can be found in small quantities, there is a great quantity of lead flow in the environment that is detrimental to human beings and plants. However, despite lead is a toxic metal, there are still lots of households products contains lead; burning of paper products, discarded rubber, battery casings, and…

Garrett Smith. This article is speaks about how human nitrogenous waste pollutes the oceans causing the nitrogen fixing phytoplankton to exponentially grow. This is a problem because when they decompose it takes away mass quantities of oxygen in the ocean, which is need for respiration for many different organisms. Although humans are to blame for many of the world’s problems…

. (10 points) Discuss the classifications of wastes. There are different classifications of wastes: degradable, dissipating, conservative, and solid. Degradable wastes that can transformed to other compounds. An example of degradable wastes are food products. When food products are inputted into the oceans they are broken down by microorganism like into their organic compounds. Dissipating wastes can be dissipated or diluted. Heat is a dissipated waste that once it enters the ocean it…

Literature Review of Class Bivalves 1. Introduction Freshwater and marine bivalves Taxonomy, ecological value, economical value, current Issues, current threats 2. Taxonomy According to Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, the Bivalves class was divided into six subclasses which cover 13 orders. The first subclass, Palaeotaxodonta, have characteristics such as small body, taxodont, protobranch, infaunal and aragonitic shells. This subclass has only one order, Nuculoida. In the second…

The Cycles of Life By Max Hennemann Biogeochemical Cycles are the ways in which energy and elements flow throughout an ecosystem. These cycles are important because they transport the elements that we need to survive. The Hydrologic Cycle Also known as the Water Cycle Hydrologic Cycle Description The hydrologic cycle focuses on the movement of water throughout the environment. It depicts how H20 changes states in the cycle. Humans impact the hydrologic cycle when we consume, dam, and pollute…

found in their tissue. Acid rain can also cause phytoplankton to die. This affects other organisms in the ecosystem because they are a common food source. An example of a food web that could be changed would be phytoplankton that gets eaten by dragonflies and trout, the dragonflies are then consumed by salamanders, and the salamanders and trout are both consumed by eagles. The entire food chain could be impeded if the main source of energy (phytoplankton) were to die out due to the acid rain.…

be affected. The 2005 Kyoto University in Japan research determined that carbon dioxide concentration of 200ppm being pumped into the seawater reduces growth rates for many sea species (Hardt & Safina 71). Other experiments show the struggle of phytoplankton balancing the changing pH inside them and how it correlates with the impaired ability to reproduce or grow. Many species cannot genetically adapt because ocean acidification is occurring too rapidly. Researchers at Princeton University…

Earth, a planet that once was devoid of human, an organism that destroys anything and everything in its path, is currently infected with it. After a prosperous five billion years, Earth is sinking and anything on it will go down too. Everyday, Earth is suffering from an endless beating of human destruction: forests are mowed for land, coals are burned for energy, and oceans are polluted for space. The consequence doesn 't only hurt the Earth itself but everything on it. Such large-scale…