Ocean Literacy: Why Does Ocean Matter?

Ocean pollution is caused by many things,plastic,humans, and oil spills, we are trying to stop this. So many people just put the plastic in the ocean and people are trying to stop them. Two billion people within 30 miles of the coast create 100m of coastal plastic waste. We can help by reducing plastic in waste stream, and try to stop pollution. Another way we can help is by recycling (Doc.1). We cause pollution to by dumping trash and garbage onto beaches. We have to help protect oceans by monitoring the water to see if people can go swimming (Doc.2). The oceans have to stay healthy because they are a habitat to animals (OI). Another reason we have to keep oceans healthy because they are a big food source for us (OI). In

The oceans need to be protected because it is where life began and if not taken care of, life as we know it will end. The well-being of the ocean is constantly being threatened and needs to stop. When dangerous substances go into the ocean, ecosystems suffer and become endangered along with the lives of people and marine life. The importance of protecting and preserving the quality and biodiversity of the world 's coasts must be recognized because they are truly irreplaceable. If humans are not educated , and become careless about what is thrown on the ground or sprayed on lawns, disastrous effects follow when it comes to the condition of the ocean’s ecosystems, which can endanger life itself, leading to a problem only we can correct. There is historical evidence of ocean pollution, although the problem still shadows us today.

Oceans cover approximately 75% of Earth 's surface and are vital to this planet and the people who inhabit it. Oceans provide food, natural resources, and recreation for nearly everyone in this world. Unfortunately Oceans have been receiving mass amount of pollutants including oil spills, toxic waste dumping, and industrial dumping. These pollutants will have negative impacts on the wildlife in the ocean, as we are seeing already with the Coral Reefs, and soon enough it will begin to affect our lives as well.

Everything in this world we use comes from the ocean in some way. The air we breathe, the water we drink, even the products we use day to day, would not be possible without the ocean. That's why the issue of ocean pollution is so important and needs to be addressed as soon as possible. We depend on the ocean for so much in our life, without it we would surely become extinct. People seem to think that since the ocean is so large and vast, we can dump as much waste as we'd like into it and it will never have an effect on us. However, since we've been polluting the ocean as far back as Roman times, the evidence of ocean pollution becoming a major problem is all too clear.

Floras and microbes are additional main biotic mechanisms of many oceanic ecosystems. Microbes act as decomposers for oceanic ecosystems, and they break defunct living matter and transforms it into vitality that is used by other existing organisms in the oceanic ecosystem. Detrivores, which are a type of animal, also eat deceased or putrefying plants and animal matter. Algae, which are autotrophs, appear as the head herbal vivacity and primary producers in oceanic ecosystems. The sunlight transforms the light into energy for nourishment for marine plants. Heat and light are focal abiotic factors discovered in essentially all oceanic ecosystems, consequently oceanic ecosystems has some broaden abiotic mechanisms, comprising viscosity and many more. The power that the bulk of an organism is called buoyancy. The durability of the drive of seawater is called viscosity. These abiotic factors source to the drive of all organisms in oceanic systems. Sunlight pierces the sea exterior only about 65 feet. As there is more salt in the Great Barrier Reef than in other oceanic ecosystems the marine holds less oxygen than the

Ocean Pollution has been occurring for years. It is important because trash and toxic substances are harmful to humans and animals. Animals are continuously dying either by being choked from trash caught around their neck or them mistaking it for food. Humans are responsible for overfishing. There is less fish species due to overfishing. Ocean Pollution is caused by people, natural disasters and animals.

Oceans have affected the environment by hurting animals, people, the environment itself and NOW the plants. Believe it or not, but when garbage affects our plants it also affects our animals, humans, and environment, like a chain reaction. Any plant can be affected by this pollution.

The marine deep biome starts at about 100 feet deep in the ocean and ends at around 5000 feet. The location is slightly in between the euphotic and disphotic ocean zones. Because of the little light that enters the disphotic zone, the organisms there, rely on the zone above for food. In the upper part of the marine deep biome, photosynthesis occurs, allowing producers to thrive and eventually be eaten by lower located organisms. Some examples of producers that can be grown by process of photosynthesis are phytoplankton, seaweed, and algae. Without the sunlight, there would be no way for deeper sea life to survive. A couple of those lower organisms are shrimp, mollusks, and zooplankton; which are all herbivores. Carnivores, which feast on these

All in all, the subject of Biological Oceanography brings upon a better understanding of life under the sea.

People are linked to the oceans in many ways that they can understand and others that are not so obvious; a means of transportation and support economies by providing a food source are the obvious ones .Civilizations through the millenniums have used the sea to nurture them providing the food source and other resources. Today the ocean is utilized for escape or tourism for its serenity and if all of the majestic biological organisms that ocean has to offer. People need to preserve this in incredible resource and start working on this today.

September 17, 1974. It was a cool, crisp fall night when I boarded the S.S. Hato. It was such a well crafted sub... what a shame. Everything was running smoothly, it should have been for I was the captain. We quickly submerged into the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean, I awaited to study the destinies of the Atlantic Ocean. As I waited one of my highest ranked crew members asked me a peculiar question,

The ocean it covers over 70 percent of the earth’s surface and more than 500 million people go to its surface during the summer yet we have not seen 95 percent of the surface in detail. This is where oceaogahers come into play. An oceanographer is someone who studies the ocean whether it is to find a pocket of oil deep in the ocean or to find new species of fish deep down in the sea or the migratory patterns of fish for fishermen to be able to catch that type of fish all year.

The organisms that live on top of the sea are called epifauna and the organisms that live inside the benthic environment are called infauna. The prokaryotes/bacteria contribute to the recycling of nutrients. In addition, they transfer DOM up the trophic pyramid. The following consumer is protozoan bacterivores they eat the bacteria. Another consumer is the harpacticoids, who feed primarily on ciliates and microalagae. The macro-organism is broken into two categories suspension (worms) and deposit feeders (bivalves or worms). The top predators are the fish, sea stars, and crustaceans. They all contribute to the biogeochemical cycling if they are efficient then high recycling occurs, if there is low efficacy then high burial occurs. Burial removes the matter for hundreds to thousands of

Ocean pollution is one of the most urgent issues in our world today. The ocean is crucial to our ecosystem and it is being severely damaged at an alarmingly increasing rate. In this paper I will educate about the role the ocean plays in our beautiful Earth, why it is being so widely ignored and dismissed, the causes of pollution, and its effects on animals and humans alike.

The ocean plays a critical role in removing carbon from the atmosphere and providing oxygen. It regulates Earth's climate. The ocean is an increasingly important source of biomedical organisms with enormous potential for fighting disease. These are just a few examples of the importance of the ocean to life on land.