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Oil Spillage A devastated man-made environmental disaster is an oil spillage in the ocean . An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into environment due to human activity like boats above oil pipes or rigs and its a form of pollution. Other form of oil spillage is marine oil spillage ,where oil is release into the ocean or coastlines. Oil spills is a release of crude oil from tankers, pipelines offshore platforms,drilling rigs. Spills may take months or years to clean up…

They enjoy feeding on small fish, crustaceans, sea snakes, and some seabirds. The Blacktip Reef Shark is known for its strategic and unique way of hunting fish; the shark pushed itself out of the water, spins, landing on its back, attracting fish closer to the surface. The Blacktip Reef Shark is incredibly skittish and avoids…

plastic trash in the ocean. Around 8 million is dumped into the ocean every year, so it's like a garbage truck dumping a load of plastic into the ocean every minute. This plastic pollution also cause more than 100,00 deaths of marine animals and seabirds.…

Up to 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals die each year. Our highways is the most common place for us to litter. There is about 52 billion pieces of litter cluttering the roads along our highways. How does this affect us? Simple. Littering cost money From my…

As they approached the beach, they saw the purple flags and no swimming signs. They asked the lifeguard why the purple fag was up, and the lifeguard said one word, “jellyfish.” Jellyfish can paralyze and kill other small animals, and sometimes they kill humans. Most jellyfish are transparent and have very long tentacles. These are good qualities for a predator. However, now you can buy anti-jellyfish sunscreen. Many cultures cook and eat jellyfish, and we are using them in medical research.…

The cuttlefish is a very unique animal in its own ways. Its habitat is the ocean but the ocean is home to many other organisms. The Cuttlefish is not a very vicious animal, and it is also not a fighter. There are predators that can eat the cuttlefish, like every organism but like many other organisms it has its very own defense mechanisms. The main defense mechanism of a cuttlefish is its camouflaged skin. It is very amazing because if you put a cuttlefish in bowl with stripes that…

one of many primary consumers in this ecosystem (Winter). Squid eat mainly plankton, krill and fish (Sasso). Squid is also one of many primary consumers in the ecosystem (Winter). There are about 100 million tons of squid that are eaten by whales, seabirds, seals, and penguin (Sasso). Fish feed on krill and other fish that are smaller (Sasso). Also, fish are secondary consumers (Winter). There are five types of penguin Antarctica (Sasso). These are chinstrap, adelie, emperor, gentoo, and the…

The film “Apocalypto”, Directed by Mel Gibson, is a film based in Mesoamerica, following the lives and war of the Mayan civilization. This film displayed events and information that was stated in the Strayer: Ways of the world text book. This film covers a small Mayan village from before they were captured, through their journey, and lastly ending with the Spanish arrival. Among these event a few things were exemplified such as the description of the type of land they lived, warfare among the…

When the oil gets inhaled by an animal it becomes poisonous, and when it gets in the animal’s fur they can’t use the fur to maintain body temperature. Since the oil floats, animals like seabird and sea otters are commonly affected and are often found on the shorelines when the oil comes ashore. Other animals, such as snails and clams, also get harmed if the oil stays on the beach for too long. Animals are dying or getting harmed, according…

above the high water level; seawater penetrates the elevated areas only during storms with highest tides. Organisms the live here cope with long periods of exposure to air as well as heat, cold, rain (fresh water), and predation by land animals and seabirds. The littoral zone is the closest to the shore and below water. The division between these is because the supralittoral zone is above high water and the littoral is…