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    to late twentieth century and the twenty first century have been devastating to the world’s oceans in terms of pollution, overfishing, ice caps melting, destruction of habitat, and increasing amounts carbon dioxide being dissolved into the water. These are only a few of the seemingly endless problems humans have introduced to the oceans. Things like the ice caps melting affect how basic aspects of the oceans function. Pollution and destruction of habitat affect nearly every species of marine organism

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    Some think of the ocean as a place of peace, or a getaway from our busy lives. Others think of it as where two worlds, aquatic and terrestrial, collide. No matter what you think of the ocean, it has sustained us for as long as we could possibly remember, and provided us with life. The ocean has provided everything we need to survive, and to repay it, we decided to destroy it. We have become monsters, demolishing what matters to us most. Over the past few decades, the amount of ocean pollution has rapidly

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    awareness about is ocean acidification. In fact, “In the past 200 years alone, ocean water has become 30 percent more acidic...” (Ocean Acidification). Acidification of the ocean has been the cause of the weakening of marine life and has done nothing but negatively impact us. While 30 percent may not seem like much, over a span of 200 years, most change has happened within the last 50 years and since it is happening at such a fast rate, it doesn’t give marine life the chance to adapt. Ocean acidification

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    Atlantic Ocean is a body of saltwater that covers twenty-five precent of Earths surface. It provides transportation for humans and homes for plants and animals ("Atlantic Ocean"). There is more than seventy percent of the Earth 's surface is covered with water ("The Open Ocean"). The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean in the world. It borders North and South America, Europe, and Africa ("Atlantic Ocean"). The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mostly underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean

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    Can you predict the outcome of food and medicine resources from the ocean if plastic pollution is not prevented or minimized? We as humans, need food and most times medicine to survive and to be healthy. Some of the resources we need for food and medicine come from the ocean. What will happen to our resources if we cannot prevent or at least minimize plastic pollution in the ocean? This paper will be about what experts say about ocean pollution, and how we can prevent it. For the first part of this

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    the whole entire world. The oceans holds almost sixty percent of our oxygen that not only we the people need to survive but creatures too. In the past four decades the population of sea creatures have nearly declined by fifty percent. A reason that could be a huge cause for the declination of the population is pollution. Pollution is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. Pollution in the ocean can be oil spills, agricultural

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    in our oceans. Entire ecosystems of our oceans are changed when molecules like carbon dioxide are added into the mix. Carbon dioxide is a killer in the world’s oceans. Not only does this molecule acidify the ocean, but it also has direct consequences on many types of coral and sea plant life. Acidification of planet earth’s seas affects all living organisms under water. I think it is time to address some of the issues that climate change and ocean acidification bring to earth’s healthy oceans and discuss

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    The ocean is a vast and mysterious part of our ocean. The ocean covers 71 % of our planet and contains over 50% of all life on earth. (“Oceanic Institute”). The oceans also hold the deepest part of our planet that we have yet to explore and discover. The ocean is vital to our survival on Earth and we all destroying it through our pollution and waste of society. Most of the trash being washed in the ocean is plastic, and the problem with plastic is it isn't biodegradable. So all the plastic that's

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    What is Ocean Acidification? How has ocean acidification affected the world over the years? Well let’s start off with what it is, ocean acidification is when the pH levels in the ocean decrease immensely over a large period, mainly due to the recent uptake of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It has not only been affecting our ecosystem for centuries but is been slowly damaging it, and us humans don’t even know about it. It has been taking away many food sources from different species due to the

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    The Ocean Of The Sea

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    An ocean is a very large expanse of sea, in particular, each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically. Have you ever been fascinated with the ocean or just something that interest you? Well this essay is about my fascination and what I know and how a came to understand the ocean. The ocean is a very mysterious, beautiful place where anything can happen at any time and to understand it one must pay close attention to it a research and that 's exact what I did. A tide is the rise

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